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BLACK'S 
GUIDE TO KILLAKNEY 

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SOUTH OF IRELAND. 



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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

eat Southern and Western Railway 1 

ilwat Route from Dublin to Cork, through Kildare, 
Queen's County, Tipperary, County Limerick, and County 

Cork 2 

Railway Route erou Kildare to Thomastown, through 

Carlow and Kilkenny 17 

Railway Route erom Limerick Junction to Tipperary, Clon- 

mel, carrick-on-sulr, and watereord .... 20 

Railway Route erom Mallow to Killarney .... 23 

Dublin to Cork, &c. 24 

Cork 40 

Jaunting Cars and Hotels 40 

Principal Objects 41 

Cork to Queenstown 48 

Cloyne 50 

Blarney 52 

Fermoy 55 

Youghal 55 

Killarney — 

Hotels, Cars, and Boats ...:... 56 

Town 57 

Muckross, or Cloghereen 57 

Excursion erom Killarney by Gap oe Dunloe and the Three 

Lakes 57 

Killarney to Muckross Abbey and Torc Waterfall . . 73 

Ascent oe Mangerton 75 

Ascent oe the Reeks 76 

Cork to Killarney, First Route 76 

Second Route 79 

Third Route 79 

Table or Elevations 80 



KILLARNEY 

AND 

THE SOUTH OF IEELAND, 

BY GEEAT SOUTHEEN AND WESTEEN EAILWAY. 

[Station — Kingsbridge, Dublin.] 

FEOM DUBLIN TO COEK, passing through counties Kil- 
dare, Queen's, Limerick, and Cork, entire distance 164f 
miles ; fares 27s. 6d., 20s. 6d., and 13s. 9d. 

Branch to Carlow, 55f miles ; fares 9s. 6d., 7s., and 4s. 8d. 
Kilkenny, 81 miles ; fares 14s., 10s. 6d., and 6s. 9d. 
Waterford, 113 miles; fares 19s. 6d. and lis. 6d. 

Branch to Limerick, 129 miles; fares 22s., 16s. 6d., and 10s. 
9d. 

Branch to Tipperary, 110} miles; fares 19s., 10s. 6d., and 
9s. 3d. Cahir, 123} miles; fares 20s. 8d., 15s. 6d., and 
10s. 3d. Clonmell, 134} miles ; fares 22s. 6d., 16s. 10d., 
and lis. 2d. Carrick-on-Suir, 168 miles; fares 25s., 
18s. 6d., and 12s. 5d. Waterford, 181 miles ; fares 27s, 
and 20s. 4d. 

Branch to Killarney, 186 miles : fares 27s. 6d., 20s. 6d., and 
13s. 9d. 



I.— FROM DUBLIN 


TO 


CORK, THROUGH KILDARE, QUEE! 


COUNTY, TIPPERARY, COUNTY LIMERICK, AND COUN1 


CORK. 










j 




ON EIGHT EEOM 


S^5 




6:3 


ON LEFT EEOM 


DUBLIN. 


2 s 
164f 


STATIONS, etc. 


p ,c 


DUBLIN. 




Dublin, 









164| 




§ 


Royal Hospital of 
Kilmainham, on the 
site of Priory of the 
Knights Hospitallers. 
The renowned Brian 
Boroimhe spent th 
last year of his life :' i 


















the village. 


Inchicoee House, 


163| 




1* 


Locomotive Depc \ 
at Inchicoee. Tht 
sheds are very spa- 
cious, and generally 
admired. Coke ovens 
and workshops at- 
tached. 


<€$ Chapelizod 1 m. 


162| 




2 


Row of cottages for 


A village on the river 








workmen on the line. 


Liffey, celebrated as 
the encampment of 
Brian Boroimlie in 989, 
and William III. in 


162J 




*k 


Detmagh Castle. 
formerly a stronghold 
of the family of Barn- 
well, 


1690, after his victory 








on the Boyne. 










Ballyeeemot, castle 


161| 




3£ 




and church . The latter 










dedicated to St. Law- 










rence. 


160J 


Clondalkin, 

The name of the village 
is supposed to be de- 
rived from a church 


*k 


Round tower seen from 
the line. Eighty-four 
feet in height. One of 
the most perfect in 
Ireland. 






founded by St. Mo- 








chua, called Cluain 










Dolcain, 






Ballyowen, 


159| 




H 


The plantations of 
Castlebaggot are 
seen. 


Lucan Chubch. A 


158* 




6i 




plain parish church 










with a spire. 










<cp Lexlip village is 
3 miles distant Both 


1571 


■o Lucan 


7 






1| m. distant. The 






Lucan and Lexlip 




demesne is still the 







FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, Sec.— Continued. 



should be visited by 
the Midland and Great 
Western Railway, 



Castletown. 155| 

«€} Celbbidge 1 m. I54g 
distant. So named from! 
St. Bridgid's Chapel. 
Vanessa, one of Swift's 
loves, resided for some 
time at Celbridge Ab- 
bey, the residence of 
H. Grattan, Esq. 



ON RIGHT TEOil 






STATIONS, ETC, 



Reeves Castle, Earl 
of Leitrim. 



Castle Dillon. 



153| 



1531 



152f 



151| 



H9| 



property of the Sars- 
fields. General Sars- 
field was, by James II., 
created Earl of Lucan. 
Formerly a place of 
note, owing to its spas. 

Hazelhatch and 
Celbridge. 

Abont four m. dis- 
tant is the beautiful 
property of the Dukei 
of Leiiister, Carton. 
It is well planted and 
watered. The tym- 
panum on the portico 
in front of the mansion 
is ornamented with the 
family arms. A good 
collection of paintings 
in the interior. Gar- 
dens in Italian style. 



Enter the county Kil- 
dare. Pop. 96,627. 



10 



Straffan. 

The seat of H. Burton, 
Esq., bears the same 
name. 



ON LEET FBOlf 
DUBLIN. 



11| Lyons Castle, Lord 
Cloncurry, in front of 
Lyons Hill, which 

rises 657 feet — is 
well planted, and feo 
lated. The castle on 
12 the site of an ancient 
mansion. "Wings con- 
nected to centre by 
colonnades. Contains 
some fine frescos and 
sculpture. 

13| 



15| OUGHTEBAKD, 

lage with the 



, vil- 

same 

name as one in the 
County Galway. The 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, &c— Continued. 



ON RIGHT EEOM 
DUBLIN. 



Sheelockstown. 



«CJ Clane, ty 
distant. During the 
6th century an Abbey 
existed here. Clane. 
supposed to be from 
Cluaine, meaning 
sanctuary. 



US 



1471 



146| 



146| 



145| 



STATIONS, ETC. 



Hill oe Allen 
seen, situated in the 
bog of the same name, 
300 feet. Supposed to 
be the scene of one of 
Ossian's Poems. Sup 
posed residence of Fin 
MacCual. 



13^0 cr. Grand Canal. 

The bridge is con- 
structed of wood. 

Sallins. 
igg cr. Grand Canal. 



Line passes through 
the Hill of Obebs- 

TOWN. 



n@ cr. River Liffey, 
ich here flows in a 
somewhat northerly 
direction. Bridge built 
of timber, 21 feet high 
and 270 feet long. 



16f 



17 



18 



ON LEET EEOM 
DUBLIN. 



Hill of the same 
name is 438 feet high , 
and on its summit has 
the remains of a round 
tower. On other parts 
are various ecclesias 
tical remains. 

Palmeestown Ho. 
Seat of the Earl of 
Mayo. 



ISi 



19 



140| 



24 



Naas, 2 m. dist. 13- 
was the residence of 
the Kings of Leinster 
long before the period 
of Strongbow. " In its 
immediate neighbour- 
hood, and forming a 
singular and striking 
object, are the remains 
of Jigginson, a build- 
ing commenced upon 
an enormous scale by 
the unfortunate Earl 
of Strafford." 
The Castle the pro- 
perty of the De Burghs 
of Oldtown. 

Old ConnellAbeey. 
about a mile and a-half 
from Newbridge sta- 
tion. Dedicated in 1202 
by the founder, M. 
Fitzhenry, to the "Vir- 
gin and St. David. 
Though the priors were 
in their day peers, 
and even privy coun- 
cillors, nothing now 



FROM DUBLIN TO COEK, &c— Continued. 



ON EIGHT FROM 
DUBLIN. 



The Curragh, 

Famous in the annals 
of horse-racing. This 
was an ancient race- 
course ; Sir William 
Temple was the means 
of obtaining a Govern- 
ment grant of £100 to 
be run for annually., 
"with a view to im- 
prove the breed of 
Irish horses." It is 
six miles by two, con- 
taining 4858 statute 
acres. "It is a fine 
sod for the diversions, 
and if it has any fault 
it is its evenness. It 
is a most delightful 
spacious common and 
sheep-walk, and the 
land extremely good." 
The neighbouring pro- 
prietors and tenants 
have the privilege of 
sheep-grazing on the 
Curragh. In 1406, it 
was the scene of a 
battle betwixt a few 
English under the 
Prior of Connall and 
200 Irish, who were 
defeated. It afforded 
parade ground for the 
Volunteers in 1789 ; 
and the United Irish- 
men ("to the number of 
30,000) in 1804. A 
forest once occupied 



STATIONS, ETC. 



139J 



137* 



134| 



Newbridge. 

The village is small, 
and presents the ano- 
maly ot a very large 
cavalry barrack. Has 
a neat stone bridge, 
with five arches, over 
the Liffey. 



Kildare. 

The town of Kildare is 
seen from the station. 
The name is supposed 
by some to be a cor- 
ruption of " chille- 
dair," an oak wood. 
The ruined cathedral 
still exists, and tells of 
the ancient splendour 
of the " City renowned 
for Saints." St. Con- 
loeth is generally al- 
lowed to have founded 
the see of Kildare. 
The Red Book of the 
Earl of Kildare states, 
that Sonino was the 
first, Svorious the se- 
cond, and Conloeth 
the third." It is more 
probable, however, that 
as Conloeth was as- 
sisted by the good St. 
Bridgid in the erection 
of the cathedral, he 
was the first. An an- 



ON LEFT FROST 
DUBLIN. 



^ 



27* 



30 



remains but a few 
pieces of broken wall, 
with two of the win- 
dows. The windows 
are in the Gothic style 
of architecture. 

Kilcullen, 5m.0 
distant, was formerly 
a town of some conse- 
quence. Surrounded 
by circular walls, with 
seven entrances. The 
ruins of these walls 
exist, as also portions 
of a round tower, and 
carved crosses. 

Curragh Platform, 
where excursion trains 
during race-days put 
down and take up pas^ 
sengers. 



Branch to Water- fG" 
ford, 83 m., passing 
Carlow, 25| m, and 
Kilkenny, 51 m., with 
intermediate stations. 

The Bound Tower is 
a conspicuous object 
from the line. It rises 
to a height of 130 feet. 
The cap which termi- 
nated the tower has 
been removed, and a 
Gothic battlement sub- 
stituted in its stead. 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, kc— Continued. 



ON EIGHT TEOW 
DUBLIN, 



the place of the K Short 
Grass of the Curragh." 
Numerous earthworks 
are still to be found. 
St. Bridget's Abbey 
was founded on it in 
5S4. The nuns of St. 
Bridget were supposed 
to possess inextin- 
guishable fire. 



Lackagh Castle and 
Chuech. The latter 
rebuilt in 1835. The 
castle of the Fitzger- 
alds in ruins 



■c? Mount Mellick 
6 J miles distant. Is a 
town celebrated in Ire- 
land for the cotton 
manufacture carried 
on in it by a colony of 
Quakers. It is a pros- 
perous town, and has 
a large and well-atten- 
ded school for the edu- 
cation of the children 
of the poor. It is also 
the station of the Irish 
Beet Sugar Company. 



c ~ 



131| 



128| 



STATIONS, ETC. 



cient writer of the life 
of Bridgid says, that 
" the holy 'Bridgid 
elected him bishop in 
her city of Kildare." 
" In the year 638, Aod 
Dull, or' Black Htigh, 
King of Leinster, ab- 
dicated his throne and 
took upon himself the 
Augustinian habit of 
this Abbey. 

Line enters Queen's 
County. Pop. 109,717. 



~-j=. j ON LEFT TEOM 
£ ^ DUBLIN. 



S3 



36| 



Monasteraven, 

So called from an abbey 
founded by St. Even 
or Evan, early in the 

seventh century. It 
exercised the privile- 
ges of sanctuary. St. 
Even's festival is held 
on the 22d of Decem- 
ber. The consecrated 
bell of the saint was 
committed to the cus- 
! tody of the hereditary 
| chief s of the MacEgans, 
j and was on all solemn 
j occasions sworn upon, 
! as the bible is in our 
'courts of justice. Pas- 
| sing through various 
; hands, the abbey at 
; length became the 
[ property of the Moors, 
: Earls of Drogheda, by 
J one of whom it was 
| repaired. It is still in 
• a good state of preser- 
vation. It presents a 
: Gothic end with a 
large window, and two 
] strong square towers 
, at the sides. 



127| HS3 car. River Barrow, i 37 



The demesne of Moore 
Abbey, the property of 
the Marquis of Dro- 
gheda, is well laid out, 
and has been much 
improved of late. The 
hall is lined with 
carved Irish oak. 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, kc.— Continued. 



OX EIGHT EEOW 
DUBLIN. 



Lea Church and 
Castle. Tlie castle 
was built in 1260, by 
the De Yeseys. The 
object of its' erection 
was to protect the 
north of Ireland. It 
consisted of rude ma- 
terials, built in a qua- 
drangular shape, with 
flanking bastions. The 
Irish burned it down 
in 128-4. The Fitzger- 
alds and O'Mores sub- 
equently held it. 



STATIONS, ETC. 



Laueagh. 



Bloowfield. 



U4\ 
123J 



= — OX LEET TEOil 

-5 "§ DUBLIN, 



120| 



115 



on viaduct of mal- 
leable iron, about 500 
feet in length. 
-i§^ cr. branch of 
Grand Canal. 

Portarlington, 

An ancient borough 
and post town, situ- 
ated on the River Bar- 
row, with a handsome 
Protestant church, and 
large Bonian Catholic 
chapel. Lord Arling- 
ton, to whom the estate 
on which the town is 
built belonged, formed 
a little town on a port 
on the river. It gives 
the title of earl to the 
family of Dawson. 
The demesne of Daw- 
son Grove is the family 
seat. Emigrants from 
Germany and Trance 
were among the first 
inhabitants of the 
town. It returns one 
member to Parliament. 
The town being for- 
i feited to TVilham III.. 
was by him conferred 
on General Rouvigny, 
who was at the same 
time created Earl of 
Galway. Flemish and 
French Protestants 
flocked to it at that 
period. 



114 ; Maryborough, 

A borough, market, and 
post-town. ■'•' So called 
11 2 } in honour of Mary, 
Queen of England, 
who reduced this part 
of the country to shire- 
! prone d. : : if i or nierlv 



•401 
41i 



44i 



49 



5Q: 



Dawson's Couet. 
now termed Emo Park, 
the seat of the Earls of 
Portai'lington. One of 
the finest modern man 
sions in Ireland. The 
demesne is extensive, 
and the undulating 
ground highly favours 
its appearance. 



Buins oe Kil 
iiixcHT House, 



Bathleag, the de- 
mesne of Lord Cong- 
leton. The planta- 
tions give variety to 
the countrv. 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, See. 


—Continued. 


ON EIGHT FBOM 


2 S 


STATIONS, etc. 


o 3 


ON LEFT FBOM 


DUBLIN. 


J- o 

5o 






DUBLIN. 




sent two members to 








Parliament. " The 










heath of Maryborough 










was the original de- 










mesne of the" 0' Mores, 










chiefs, Laoighois or 










Leix ; in it was fought 










a memorable battle be- 










twixt the people of 










Munster and those of 










Leinster, about the 










middle of the 6th cen- 










tury." 








109J 


i$8 cr. Cloncourse 
River. 


55^ 




«€} MotTNTBATH, 4 


105 


Kilkrickan St. 


59| 


Abbeyleix, 6 m. dis- 


m. distant. A post- 
town, founded in the 
17th century by one 




FOR MOUNTRATH 
AND CASTLETOWN. 




tant. ConoghorO'More 
founded a Cistertian 
monastery in the 12th 


of the Coote family. 








century. Queen Eli- 


Gave the title of Earl 








zabeth granted it to 


to the family until the 








the Earl of Ormond. 


death of the last Earl, 










in 1802. 










•cj Castletown, 2 


104£ 


if§^) cr. River Nore. 


60 




m. distant. 












lOlf 




63 


Aghaboe House and 
Abbey. The name is 
derived from Acheh 




99f 


^8 cr. Kildellig riv. 


65 


hoe, or ox-field. In the 
6th century St. Canice 
founded a' monastery 
here. He was son of 
a poet, Laidee, cele- 
brated in his day. He 
wrotQ a life of St. Co- 
lunibkill, and died at 


Balltbbophy, T. 


m 


Bailybrophy 


67ir 


Aghaboe in 599 or 


White, Esq. 

Ballymeelish, Bar- 
ker Thaeker, Esq. 




FOR ROSCREA AND 
BORRIS. 




600. The present 
church, which is a 
modern structure, 
stands upon the site 


Roscbea, 8 m. distant. 




BOBBIS-IN-OSSEBY, 2 




of a "great church" 


A fair and post town. 




m. distant. A fair 




built in 1234. The 


"The church has a 




town. The Jords of 




octagonal belfry is still 


curious Gothic frontis- 




Ossery had a castle for 




standing. The ancient 


piece at the west end ; 




the defence of the pass 




church of the monas- 


near it stands one of 




of Munster. 




tery is 100 feet long by 


.the largest round 








24 wide. The windows 



FROM DOLLS' TO CORK, kc- Continued. 



0>~ EIGHT EEOil 
DURUM. 



o ■- 



towers in the king- 
dom, all built with 
square stone, which is 
unusual in these edi- 
fices. n The bishopric 
was united with that 
of Killaioe in the 12th 
century, until which 
time it" had been inde- 
pendent. " In 1213, 
King John erected a 
castle in this town, and 
an abbey of regular 
canons was founded 
here by St. Cronan,who 
died, 10th May, in the 
beginning of "the 7 th \ 
century." The shrine j 
of this saint is to be| 
seen here, which is a| 
curious piece of anti-i 
quity. A Franciscan \ 
friary was also found- 1 
ed here in 1490, at the l 
north-west part of the \ 
town; its remains are 
still in good preserva- 
tion." The tower is 
SO feet high, and 15 in 
diameter ; the top of it 
was destroyed by light- 
ning in 1135. 

The Peioey, seat of' 
Sir John Carden, Bart. 
The demesne was that 
originally belonging to 
Priory, the" ruins 
of which are still ex- 
tant. The western 
window is a very per- j 
feet specimen of Gothic 
architecture. One of 
the entrances to the 
Priory is the remains 
of an" old castle, pro-| 
bably occupied by ; 
the Knights Templars, I 
after whom the ad-j 
joining town of Tern-' 



92| 



STATIONS, ETC. 



Line enters County 
Tipperarv. Population 
323,829. " 



B6f *@% cr. river Suir. 

B5f Templemore, 

A neat. well-built town, 
believedto have sprung 
into existence under 
the Templars. It con- 
tains Protestant and 
Roman Catholic places 
S3| of worship, and a bar- 
rack for infantry. 



■CJ BOEEISOLEIGH, 5 

m. distant from Tem- 
plemore. A fair town, 
containing the ruins of 



72 



79 



81 



OX LETT EEOM 
DEB LIN. 



are pointed. The ruins 
of the dormitories, of- 
fices, and other apart- 
ments, are still visible. 
Dermot MacGil Phad- 
rig pillaged and burnt 
tlTe shrine of St. Ca- 
nice and town of Agh- 
aboe in 1346. 

Ejn'ocehaw Hill, an 
isolated mass, 656 feet, 
rises over the railway. 



LOEGHMOEE CASTLE, 

in ruins, formerly the 
seat of the family of 
Pur cells. As it now 
stands, it consists of a 
plain castellated front, 
with strong square 



'10 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, &c— Continued. 



ON EIGHT FEOM 
DUBLIN. 



plemore is named. In 
the demesne is a beau- 
tiful sheet of water. 
Ruined castles are 
very frequently seen 
in passing through this 
county. 



&A* 



STATIONS, ETC. 



s.fi 



Holy Ceoss, a market 
town 



76i 



75f 



an ancient castle and 
church. It is situated 
on the base, of the 
Devil's Bit mountain, 
which is now conspi- 
cuous from the line. 
This hill derives its 
title from a gap in its 
outline, which, when 
seen from a distance, 
appears as if it had 
been bitten out. Its 
height is 1572 feet. 

Thurles, 

A town of some impor- 
tance on account of its 
markets. Many bat- 
tles were fought in 
and about it. " It 
gave the title of Earl 
(since extinct) to the 
Ormond family." It 
is situated on the river 
Suir, which divides the 
town into two equal 
parts. A monastery 
was founded here by 
the Butler family, in 
a.d. 1300, for Carme- 
lites or White Friars ; 
a tower is still stand- 
ing on the east side 
of the river, and a part 
of the cross aisle lead- 
ing to the north. 
There was also a castle 
erected here belonging 
to the Knights Temp- 
lars. It is the seat of 
the Roman Catholic 
archdiocese of Cashel. 
Cullen held a famous 
Synod here in 1850. 
It contains several 
educational institutes 
of note. The most 
esteemed is the college 
of St Patrick, founded 
in 1836. 



ON LEFT TEOM 
DUBLIN. 



85 



towers at each end. 
The tower to the right 
is supposed to be of 
great antiquity, the 
other portions having 
been added about the 
16th century. On the 
opposite side are the 
church and chapel of 
Loughmore. 



Beittas Castle, 
fine, but as yet un- 
finished mansion, the 
seat of Mr. Langley. 



Cabea Castle. 



Holt Ceoss Abbey, 
founded in 1182 by 
Donald O'Brian, king 
of Limerick. It is said 
that the Abbey owed its 
origin to the* circum- 
stance of its possess- 
ing a piece of the real 
cross, which Pope Pas- 
cal presented about 
sixty or seventy years 
before to Dbnaugh 
O'Brien, monarch of 
Ireland, and grandson 
of the illustrious Brian 
Boroimhe. The abbot 
was a peer in Parlia- 
ment, bearing the title 
of Earl of Holy Cross. 



11 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, &c— Continued. 



ON ETGHT FROM 
DUBLIN. 



Dundrum Demesne, 
on each side of the line, 
the property of Lord 
Hawarden ; it occu- 
pies somewhat above 
2,400 English acres. 
The house, which is on 
the opposite side, is 
plain, but elegant and 
commodious. It is 
built in the Grecian 
style. The deer-park, 
which is spacious, is 
much admired. 

Anacab/thy Castle. 

•CJ Limerick 22 m. 
distant. 



Ballykisteen Ho. 
The seat of Earl Derby. 
The mansion is a mo- 
dern building, and the 
soil rich and fertile. 



73g 



65 



stations, etc. 



4f$0 cr. River Clo- 
diach. A tributary of 
the Suir. 

Goold's Cross and 
Cashel. 

Cashel, 8 miles $3- 
distant. A small post 
town which formerly 
sent two members to 
Parliament. "The City 
of Kings " is a phrase 
commonly applied to 
the town, owing to its 
royal associations. The 
kings of Munster re- 
sided here ; and here 
Henry II. received the 
homage of Donald, king 
of Limerick, in 1172. 
" The ancient name 
Cashel was Carsiol, or 
the habitation in the 
rock, being compound- 
ed of Car or Carick, 
and Liol" 



Dundrum. 

A village, greatly de- 
pendent on Lord Ha- 
warden. 



Limerick Junc- 
tion. 

Watereord, 74 miles 
distant $& 



The Galtee mountains 
are distinctly visible in 
the distance 






95^ 



ON LEFT FROM 
DUBLIN. 



The Rock oe Cashel 
has a world-wide cele- 
brity as one of the finest 
assemblages of ruins in 
the kingdom. The 
rock was formerly the 
site of a castle or Dun, 
held by the chiefs of 
Hy Dunnamoi, latterly 
termed ' Donahue. 
The remains on the 
rock consist of a round 
tower, a small church 
with stone roof, in the 
Norman style of archi- 
tecture, a cathedral 
church in Gothic style, 
and a ruinous building 
believed to have been 
a common hall. There 
is also a cross of grit- 
stone. The interiors 
are ornamented with a 
multitude of monu- 
ments. Hore Abbey 
is a ruin situated at 
the base of the rock. 
It is built in the transi- 
tion style. The build- 
ing is cruciform. 



Tipperabt, 3J miles 
distant. 13- 

Cahir, 16 miles. 

Clonmel, 27 miles. 

Carrick-on-Suir, 61 
miles. 



12 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, &c— Continued. 



ON BIGHT FROM 
DUBLIN. 



■€? Hospital, 2 
distant, a market town 
owing its origin to 
the commandary of 
Knights Hospitallers 
established in it in the 
reign of King John. 
Sir V. Brown, to whom 
the property was 
granted by Queen 
Elizabeth, * built a 
splendid castle on the 
site of the ancient 
hospital. The ruins 
of Brown's castle are 
still extant. 



«€} Lough Guib, 6 
m. distant. A lake 
of about 4 m. circum- 
ference, with several 
islands on its bosom. 
One of these islands — 
the largest — is con- 
nected with the shore 
by an artificial neck, 
which was formerly 
defended by two strong 
towers. A family of 
the name of Clan gib- 
bon founded a friary 
here for conventual 
Franciscans in the 13th 



STATIONS, ETC. 



54f Sleive-na-muck is seen 110 

in front. 
50f 



«i 



Line enters county 
Limerick at south-east 
comer. Pop. 201,619. 

Knocklong Hill|& 
rises in the midst of a 
rich country. 



Knocklong. 



117* 



ON LTIT FEOM 
DUBLIN. 



Ekly, formerly an im- 
portant town,* known 
as Imlagh, one of the 
three chief towns in 
Ireland. A church 
and bishopric were 
founded in the 4th cen- 
tury by St. Ailbe, be- 
fore the arrival of St 
Patrick in Ireland, 
" On the arrival of St. 
Patrick and the con- 
version of Angus Mac- 
Nasrick, king of Cashel, 
the church was de- 
clared the metropoli- 
tan church of Mini- 
ster." It was plun- 
dered in 1125, and the 
mitre of the founder 
burned. The church 
was burned in 1192, 
and rebuilt. It was 
in a flourishing con- 
dition in the time of 
Henry VIII. , when 
Hurly, the then bi- 
shop," erected a college 
for the education of 
secular priests. In 
1568, the see was unit- 
ed with that of Cashel. 

Galballt, 3 m. dis- 
tant, tcr 

A considerable monas- 
tery was founded here 
in 1201 for Greyfriars. 
by a member of the 
O'Brien family. Henry 
V1LL granted it with 
certain lands "to John 
Earl of Desmond for 
ever." It was here that 
Lord President Carew 
summoned the Lords 
of every county within 
the province, to meet 
him in 160L 



13 



FKOaI DUBLIN TO CORK; &c— Continued. 



ON EIGHT FE03I 
DUBLIN. 



century. " Xear tliis 
lake, on the roadside, 
between Limerick and 
Bruff, is a druidical 
temple, consisting of 
three circles of stones ; 
the principal, which is 
about 150 feet in dia- 
meter, consists of 40 
stones, of which the 
largest is 13 feet long, 
broad, and 4 thick." 
11 King Edward and 
Grace's Bed" is a tomb 
roofed with large flags. 



The Abbey op Kill- 
mallock, dedicated 
to St. Paul and St. Pe- 
]ter, consists of choir, 
J nave, and transept. 
x The choir is at present 
jused for divine service. 
I A cylindrical belfry is 
j attached to the abbey, 
land is by many sup- 
fposed to be a round 
tower, although it 
seems coeval with the 
church. 
Xear the tower is a 
Dominican friary. Sir 
P. Hoare says of it: 
" It surpasses in deco- 
ration and good sculp- 
ture any I have yet 
seen in Ireland." He 
refers it to the reign 
of King Edward III. 
Of the church, the re- 
mains of the choir, 
nave, transept, and a 
tall steeple, are still 
tanding. The clois- 
ters remain. 



STATIONS, ETC. 



40| Killmallock. 1241 



<€$ Killmallock 
is supposed to derive 
its name from St. Mo- 
lach, who founded an 
abbey in it during the 
commencement of the 
7th century. Dong 
before the invasion of 
the Normans, Killmal 
lock was a fine city. 
Until 1783 it sent two 
members to parlia- 
ment. The ancient 
houses, occupied at one 
period by the great fa- 
milies of Limerick, are 
now reduced to the 
condition of wretched 
hovels. Even in the 
time of the Eound- 
heads.the town was one 
of uncommon beauty, 
as we learn from the 
fact that the Parlia- 
mentary leader was so 
struck with it, that he 
resolved on sparing it. 
The older houses in 
the town are generally 
ornamented with bat- 
I tlements. 



ON LEFT TBOM 
DUBLIN. 



MlTCHELSTOWN, $Gr 

13 m. distant. A neat 
little village, with the 
domain of the same 
name, the seat of the 
Earl of Kingstown 
The domain covers an 
extent of 1300 acres. 
The mansion is a 
magnificent castellat- 
ed pile, built of hewn 
stone. The celebrated 
caves of Mitchelstown 
are in the neighbour- 
hood. 



Kileinane, 5 m. US- 
distant. A small mar- 
ket town, containing 
the ruins of an anci- 
ent castle attributed 
to the Roches. Near 
it are three strong 
forts, an artificial cave, 
and a rath. The lat- 
ter, known as the 
" Danes' Port," con- 
sists of a truncated 
cone 130 feet high, and 
20 feet in diameter at 
the top, surrounded by 
7 ramparts, which di- 
minish gradually until 
the outer becomes 
scarcely 10 feet high. 
The ramparts are "20 
feet apart, and the dia- 
meter of the outermost 
about 650 feet. 



14 



FBOM DUBLIN TO COEK. kc.—C:r.n«.u:.i. 



ON EIGHT FROM 
DUBLIN. 



«€t Chaelevtlle, 1 
m. distant. 

Rathcogax, or Rath- 
go gas of the older 
authors. The first 
Earl of Orrery had the 
town erected into a 
corporation at his own 
expense. His town- 
house, built in 1661. 
was, in 1690, burnt 
down by some of King 
James' 'soldiers, under 
the Duke of Berwick. 
" The place gave the 
title of Earl to the 
Moore family." The 
land in the neighbour- 
hood is well suited for 
dairy farming, which 
is principally' carried 



5 ■- 



m 




■€$ Cecilstown, 6 
di. distant. A small 
market town. 



ox Lin nam 

DUBLIN. 



Line enters Countv 
Cork. Pop. 551,168. * 

Charleville. 1»| 



Buttevant. 137% 

Like KillmaUock. But- 
tevant was once a town 
of importance, as may 
be inferred from the 
ruins which abound in 
and about it. Seward 
says-. "It is called in 
the Ecclesiasticalbooks 
Botlwn. by the Irish 
and Spencer, Kihu- 
mullagh ; and was for- 
merly an ancient cor- 
poration, being once 
governed by a mayor, 
and aldermen, but by , 
the wars gone to de- 
cay." 

Doneeaile, $y 5 m. 
distant. A market 
and post town, giving 
the title of Viscount 
to the family ::' S: 
Leger. It is' situated 
on" the river Awbeg. 
over which it has a 
Igood bridge. Hm c r 
i of the St. Legers, 
Doneraile Park, is a 
! fine property, with a 
beautnul modern nian- 
1 sion. " There is a neat 
church here, with a 
good steeple and spire : ' 
and on the remains 
of the castle a barrack 
is erected for a troop 
of horse. Near this 
town are several quar- 
ries of beautiful varie- 
gated marble." 



The Abbey cr Bur- 

tzvani was founded 
in the reigB I S .".- 
ward I. by David de 
Barry. Judging from 
the nan 

standing, it must have 
been almost magnifi- 
cent house . T:. ;- 
is a high, square tower 
erected on a Sotfcac 
arch. The founder, 
'. who was L: I 

: f Ireland, was 
. buried within the choir 
• opposite to the altar. 

Kilcclhan. CT 6 m. 
distant. A ruined 
castle to the north- 
west of Doneraile. 
formerly the 
residence of the 'Earls 
of Desmond, but 
I chiefly celebr ~ a a 
the place where Spen- 
cer composed ~ his 
I inimitable " Eaery 
; Queen. " Edmund 
Spencer was born 
Smithfield, London., in 
1553. After leaving 
Pembroke College. 
Cambridge, he :- ore 1 
to London, where he 
was patronised by Sir 
Philip Sidney Aftei 
various ups-and-downs 
but too camm : _ 
literary aspirants, he 
I obtained from the 
1 Crown, in June 1581 
[a grant ■::" 3088 i:re = 



15 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, &c— Continued. 



ON EIGHT IE03I 
DUBLIN. 



The Spa House has 
lately been opened in 
order to afford hot and 
cold baths. 

■d The branch to 

KlLLABNEY, 41 m. 

distant, turns off to 
right. 



19| 



STATIONS, ETC. 



Castletowneoche, 
8 m. distant fGr 
from Butt evant. A fair 
town, with the ruins 
of a castle, once the 
seat of the Roches, 
Lords of Fernioy. The 
castle is built on a 
rock, and overlooks the 
river Awbeg. On the 
opposite side of the 
river is a field known 
as Campfield, " from 
whenpe a battery was 
erected by a party of 
the Parliament's for- 
ces anno 1649, against 
the castle, which was 
then defended by the 
lady of Lord Roche for 
several days in a very 
gallant manner. This 
lord refused a compo- 
sition for his estate 
from 0. Cromwell, 
About 1 mile distant 
from Castletownroche 
is the castle of Carrig- 
nacenny; at Bridge- 
town, about the same 
distance, is the ruin of 
an abbey founded in 
1314 by Alexander 
Fitz-hugh Roche, 

whose tomb is near 
the grand altar. 

Mallow. 

Mallow is a small town 
situated on the river 
Blackwater. The Earls 
of Desmond formerly 
held the barony, which 
returned two members 
to the Irish Parlia- 
ment. On the attain- 
der of the Earl of Des- 
mond, it was "granted 
by Queen Elizabeth to 
Sir John Xorris, who 



gjg ON LEFT TEOil 

-r | | DUBLIN. 



14: 



out of the forfeited 
estates of the Earl of 
Desmond, and took up 
his abode, although it 
would seem much 
against his will, in 
Kilcolman Castle. The 
country around is very 
romantic, and weil 
suited to the fancy of 
the most fanciful of 
early English poets. 
The river Awbeg 
he terms Mulla. 
" Amongst the cool 
shades "of the green 
alders by the Mulla' s 
shore," 'he sat with 
Raleigh in 1589, and 
read to him the manu- 
script of his "Faery 
Queen." In 1598, 
Spencer having ren- 
dered himself obnoxi- 
ous to the native Irish, 
was attacked in his 
castle, which was 
burned down, destroy- 
ing, at the same time, 
his infant child. He 
escaped to London, 
and died broken- 
hearted. 



Mallow Castle. 
Sir Denham Norregs, 
Bart, 



16 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, kc— Continued. 



0>" EIGHT EEOM 
WJBUS. 



STATIONS, ZTC. 



OH LZFT EEOM 
DUBLI>". 



10* 



lae>~ey Castle is 
about three in. distant 
from the station of the 
taane name, and is : 
more conveniently 
visited from Cork. 

There is a stone there. 

that whoever kisses. 
Oh ! he never misses to 

grow eloquent. 
A "clever spout er he'll, 

sure turn out. or 
An out-and-outer — 'to! 

be Let alone.' 
Domt hope to hinder 

him, or to bewilder 

him — 
Sure he's a pngrini 1 

from the Blarnev 

Stone." 



settled the crown of, 
Portugal on the house 
of Braganza. and was 
Lord "President of 
Munster. ;: On the 
site of the town stood 
Short Castle, and on 
the south another. 
■ built by the Desmonds. . 
which was a noble pile j 
of buildings. It was 
ruined bv the rebellion 
in 1641. * 

■$&& cr. river Black- 
water. 
The railway bridge 
over the Blackwater 
is supported by ten 
arches. 

Rathduff. 

Blarney. 

{t Here was a castle 
esteemed one of the 
strongest in the pro- 
vincer It stands a m. 
Irish' west of Cork, 
upon a rock, close to a 
small river of the same 
I name, over which is a 
jhandsome bridge, and 
on the other "side a 
lake of 30 acres' ex- 
i tent. The castle was 
i built by Cormac Mac- 
1 Carry, who came into 
the Lordship in 1449 : 
the Earl of Clancarty : 
' was first summoned to 
Parliament as Baron of 
Blarney, by Qu-r £^- 
zabeth' and created 
Viscount Muskerry 
and Eail of Clancarty; 
in 1658,* The castle 
was held for James II., j 
and stood out a severe 
siege against the forces 
' of the Prince of Oransre. I 



154| 

160 



The country on the 
left side becomes very 
uninteresting. 



17 



FROM DUBLIN TO CORK, be.— Continued. 







• 




ON EIGHT TKO^I g •* 




— -JZ 


OX LETT EEOM 


DUBLIN, -£ ° 


STATIONS, ETC. 




DUBLIN. 




A batterv was placed 






upon an elevation 








which compelled them 








to give up the castle. 









Cork, 


164| 




St. Patrick's Bridge, 


A well-built city on 






Cork, was partially de- 


the river Lee, governed 






stroyed by a flood on 


bv a mavor. aldermen 






the river Lee, on the 


and councillors, and 






2d November 1553. 


returning two mem- 
bers to Parliament. 
The population in 1851 
was 36,485. It con- 
tains many good build- 
ings, and* a valuable 
staff of hospital chari- 
ties. 







-FROM KILDARE TO THOMASTOTVX, THROUGH CARLOW A^D 
KILKE^aT. 



ON EIGHT EE01I 


_ X 




z g 


ON LEET EEOil 






STATIONS, ETC. 






KILDAEE. 


*"" £ 







EJLDAEE. 




62 


Kildare. 


Ktlcullen. C3=" 






Commence on Irish 
South Eastern Rail- 




",\ m. distant. 

A fair and post town 

on the river Liffev. 


The line between Kil- 




way. 




"Here is a prettv 


dare and Athv keeps 








church, on a hill, with 


in a direction some- 








a round tower about 


what parallel with the 








half its original lieiakt. 


boundary between the 








This town, though 


Counties Kildare and 








mean and low. was for- 


Queen's. 


m 


Athy. 


111 


merly very large, and 
surrounded by a wall ; 
for you enter through 
an arch at the turn- 
pike/'' 




41 


Mangeny. 
c 


21 


Castledefaiot, fCT 
3 miles distant, " Is 
noted for navmg the 
first charter school 
erected in it for 40 
children." This was 

K 



18 



FROM KILDARE TO THOMASTOWW. kc— Continued. 



ON EIGHT EEOM 
KILDAEE. 



s ~ 



39 



Carlow was formerly! 
styled Catheeloch, I 
the city of the lake. 
It returned two mem- 
bers to the Irish Par-: 
liament. The town 
is not conspicuous for '. 
architectural beauty. | 
On an e min ence near; 
the town is a ruin of] 
an old castle, attri 
hutcd to King John. 



•O Royal Oak, 2 
m. distant. 

Leighlin, 2f m. dis- 
tant. Formerly a 
borough returning two 
members to Parlia- 
ment; patron, the 
bishop of the diocese. 
The cathedral is in 
pretty good condition. 
A tomb " fronting the 
entrance " is pointed 
out as that of Bishop 
Cavanagh, who died in 
1587- "It is also re- 
ported that Gurmun- 
dus, a Danish prince, 
was buried in this 
church." "It was a 
bishopric founded in 
632, and joined to 
Ferns inl 600." Leigh- 
lin Bridge, two miles 
from this town, has 
the remains of a castle 



23 



STATIONS, ETC. 






Line enters the Countv 23 
Carlow. Pop. 61,157. 

Carlow- 

^£. cr. river Burren. 

The coarser kinds of 
woollen cloth have 
long been manufac- 
tured in Carlow. 
A coach leaves for Tul- 
low on the arrival of 
the 11 a.m. and 5.30 
p.m. train. Another 
meets the first train 
for Shillelagh, Ennis- 
corthy, Clonegal, and 
Newtown Carry. 



Milford. 

Bagnalstown, 

A coach starts on the 
arrival of the 10 a.m. 
train, for Wexford. A 
coach also leaves at the 
same time for New 
Boss and Graigue. 

Line enters Countv Kil- 
kenny. Pop. 139,934. 

■t$Q cr. river Barrow. 

JThe river is here the 
I boundary between the 
j Counties Carlow and 
I Kilkenny. 



39 



171 



Cowran. 



ON LEFT EEOil 
EJLDAEE. 



once the regal resi- 
dence of the royal 
family of Dermot, but 
nothing now remains 
to speak of their splen- 
dour but an old tower. 
Bruce sacked the town 
in 1316. The town 
had formerly four 
gates, no vestiges of 
which now remain. 
The southern entrance 
still bears the name of 
Carlow gate, and the 
northern, Dublin gate. 
There remain the ruins 
of a Franciscan Abbey, 
founded in the 13th 
century by Gerald. 
Earl of Kildare. In 
1377, a parliament was 
held in the town, and 
a mint instituted. 



**1 Goeets Beidge, |Cf 
3 m. distant. A 
little town on the 
river Barrow, near 
which is situated the 
ruins of Bally-yellan 
Castle. 



19 



FROM KILDARE TO THOMASTOWN, kc— Continued. 



ON EIGHT EB-Oil 
KILDARE. 



and an abbey ; it was 
destroyed by the na- 
tive Irish in 1577. 

The town contains 
many monastic and 
other ecclesiastical 
ruins. The Parlia- 
ments frequently met 
here, and here was 
passed that severe 
measure, the " Statute 
of Kilkenny." 



STATIONS, ETC. 



«€* Kells, 6 m. dis- 
tant. The ancient and 
venerable Kells, the 
seat of early learning 
and early piety, may 
be said to have sprung 
into existence with the 
founding of its monas- 
tery for canons regular 
so 'early as 550. The 
site of 'the abbey was 
granted for tins pur- 
pose by Derrnod Mac- 
Carval,' son of the king 
of Ireland, to the holy 
St. Columb or Columb- 1 
kill. The town is' 
situated on the river 
Blackwater. The name 
has changed from 
Ktnanue to Kenlis, and 
eventually to Kells. 
Informer ages it was 
reckoned one of the 



Kilkenny. 

Enter upon Waterford 
and Kilkenny Rail- 
i way. 

, In 1789, the computed 
■ population of Kil- 
\ kennv, including Irish 
: Town, was 20,000, and 
i four members were re- 
; turned to Parliament : 
now the population is 
\ 20,283, with one repre- 
sentative. The mar- 
ket-cross, bearing date 
mccc, was removed 
in 1771. 

Bennet's Bridge, 

A poor market-town. 
The neighbourhood is 
rich in gentlemen's 
seats. In the district 
are the ruins of En- 
nisnag and Aunmault 
Castles. 

Thomastown. 

A borough and post 
town, founded by Tho- 
mas Eitzanthony, an 
early Saxon settler. 
Eormerly it returned 
two members, the pa- 
tronage being in the 
family of Clifden It 
is only now noticeable 
from its proximity to 
Jerpoint. 



Waterfokd is 21 m. 

further south. 

A coach leaves Tho- 

inastown every day, on 

the arrival of the 10 

a.m. train, for New 

Ross. 



57 



62 



ON LETT EEOW 
EJLLDAHE. 



The manufactures of 
j Kilkenny are confined 
i to coarse' woollen stuffs 
I and starch. The niar- 
! ble found in the neigh- 
bourhood is highly 
prized, and largely ex- 
ported. 



Jerpoint Abbey, on 
the Xore, " founded bv 
Donogh M : Gilla-Pa- 
trick, Prince of Ossory. 
In wealth, honours, 
and architectural 

splendours, Jerpoint 
was exceeded by no 
monastic institution in 
Ireland. The demesne 
lands extended over 
1500 acres of fertile 
ground, and the build- 
ings included the ab- 
bey-church and tower, 
a refectory, dormitory, 
and office's that occu- 
pied an area of three 
acres. The whole of 
this property, be- 
queathed for 'objects 
purely sacred, was 
granted at the dissolu- 
tion to Thomas Butler ; 



EROM KILDARE TO THOMASTOWN, kc—ConthmpJ. 



ON EIGHT EE03I 
KLLDAEE. 




STATIONS, ETC. 


= i 
3 


OX LETT FROM 
ETLDAKE. 


most famous cities in 
the kingdom ; and. on 
the arrival of the Eng- 
lish, was walled and 
fortified with towers. 
In 1178, a castle was 
erected where the mar- 
ket place is now, and 
opposite the castle was 
a cross of an entire 
stone, ornamented 
with bas-relief figures, 
and many curious in- 
scriptions in the an- 
cient Irish character." 




tenth Earl of Ormonde, 
at an annual rent of 
£49 : 3 -. 6. The tomb 
of the founder is oppo- 
site the high altar." 



Ill— LIMERICK JUNCTION TO TIPPERARY, CLO>~MEL. CARRICK- 
ON-SUIHL AND WAXEKTOBD. 



ON EIGHT EEOil 
JUNCTION. 



Line to Killarney 79 
miles, and Cork * 57f 
miles. 



Slieve-na-muce 
rises 1215 feet. 






STATIONS. ETC. 



ON LETT EE03I 
JUNCTION. 



Limerick June. 

Limerick and "Water- 
ford Railway. 

Tipper ary. 

The first station on the 
hue is the old county 
town. The county is 
one of the finest* for 
grazing in the country. 
and is rt furnished with 
the best stocks of 
any in the kingdom 
It' contains 599,500 
Irish plantation acres, 
147 parishes, 10 ba- 
ronies, and 3 boroughs. 
and sends S members 
to Parliament. " — 
Seward, 1789, It 
sends four members 
to Parliament, two for 
the county, one fori 
Cashel, and one fori 



Line to Dublin. 10/ 
miles. 



2f Tipper aet. The name 
is believed to be de- 
rived from the Celtic 
Tohar-a-neidth. i.e.. 
'the well of the 
plains." The popula- 
tion of the town is not 
much above 8000. 



21 



LIMERICK JUNCTION TO TIPPEEARY, CLOXMEL. kc— Continued. 



05 EIGHT TROIL 

nmcaom. 



0>" LEFT EE01I 
JTSCTIOS". 



G-le>- Aheelow. 



<€? CLOGHEZ>~. 7 BL 

distant. 

Caher lias the reputa- 
tion of being one of the 
"Quaker towns — 
large portion of the in- 
habitants being mem- 
bers of the Society :: 
Friends. It is due to 
these people to state. 
that no other towns 
I : t e t_: the same neat- 
ness and cleanliness. 
There are extensive 
nour -mills in Cahir. 



■d Ballydoxagh, 
m. distant. 

Clonmel has now 
risen so much above 
the original county 
town as~to usurp its 
positions. The river 
is navigable from Clon- 
niel to Carrick and 
Waterford. The ma- 
nufactures are woollen, 
but not very extensive. 
;: There is" a spring 
here of Spa water. 






Clonmel. Its popula- 
tion in IS 21 was 
•346.596 : in 1581. 
. and in IS 51. 
323,829. It is esti- 
mated to contain 
1.013.173 statute acres 
of land, of which only 
319,698 are under cul- 
tivation, the remainder 
being mountain or un- 
reclaimed bog. 

Bansha. 

-T-v ST. River Aher- 
low. 

Cahir. 
-S^t cr. River Suir. 

The town and castle 
have long been famous. 
The castle is not per- ; 
haps one of the oldest 
in the kingdom, but is 
believed to occupy the 
i site of one of much 
i greater antiquity. It 
is an irregular struc- 
; ture. consisting of a 
i large square keep, with 
' extensive outworks 
and courtyards. Crom- 
S well took* the castle in 
;16o0. 

Clonmel. 



71 



16* 



am 



f EIEAED, 12 m. ^ 

distant, and S m. from 
Clonmel station. Now 
a decayed town, though 
once of considerable 
importance. It con- 
tains the ruins of an 
abbey founded 1306 
About a mile from the 
town are the ruins of 
Crump CrcUe _ 
town was built by 
King John, and still 
exhibits the ruins of 
its ancient fortifica- 
tions. 



During the remainder 
of the ride, the line 
runs in a course paral- 
lel with the river Suir, 
, on the Tipperary side. 
j The Suir sepaiaf 5 _:: - 
perary from the County 
Waterford. 



22 



LIMERICK JUNCTION TO TIPPERAPY, CLONMEL, &c— Continued. 



ON EIGHT FEOil 
JUNCTION. 



which issues out of the 
side of a rising- ground ; 
it has been found very 
beneficial in scorbutic 
and chronic com- 
plaints." Laurence 
Sterne was born here 
on the 24th November 
1713. The town is be- 
lieved to have been 
built before the Danish 
invasion, 

■c? Pobtlaw, 3 m 
distant. Messrs. Mal- 
colmson of Clonmel 
erected a cotton-mill 
in this town in 1818, 
the result of which is, 
that, from being an 
almost unknown vil- 
lage, it has become a 
town of considerable 
importance. The firm, 
it is said, employ up- 
wards of a thousand 
work-people. 



The County Waterford 
closely adjoins the 
Countv Wexford on the 
east, from which it is 
separated by the es- 
tuaries of the Barrow 
and Suir combined. 
To the north it has 
Kilkenny and Lime- 
rick, to the west Cork, 
and on the south St. 
George's Channel. Its 
principal rivers are the 
Blackwater and the 
Suir. Population in 
1851, 135,836. Two 
county members. 



21| 

14 

m 

10 



STATIONS, ETC. 



i§Q cr. river Anney. 

Kilsheelan. 
Carrick-on-Suir. 

Line leaves Tipperary 
County, and enters 
County Kilkenny. 

Fiddown, 

A market town of no 
great importance. 

Dunkitt 

Is the station at which 
the two lines from 
Kilkenny and the Li- : 
merick junction meet 
on their way to Water- 
ford, two miles distant. 
In 1 853 the lines were I 
only open thus far, and 
coach or car had to be I 
employed to 

Waterford. 
The county town is 
situated on the south 
side of the river Suir, 
on the north-east cor- 
ner of the county. 
The population in 18ol 
was 26.667 ; it returns 
two members to Par- 
liament. Gives the 
title of Marquis to the 
Beresford family. 



ON LEFT FE03I 
JUNCTION. 



30! 



331 Glenbowee, 5 
j distant. 

41 |Booley Mountains 
to the left. 

42^ I Cabeick-on-Suie i< 
~ i so named to distin 
guish it from a town 
on the Shannon. The 
town is joined to the 
County Waterford by 
a bridge over the Suir. 
The nanip is from Car- 
rick, a rock. The sur- 
rounding country is 
very fertile. Woollen 
manufactures are ex- 
tensively carried on. 
The town was formerly 
I wailed, and a portion of 
the wall still remains 
The castle is interest- 
ing. 



4-5 



53 



" Waterford was origi- 
nally built in 879, but 
destroyed in 981; it 
was considerably en- 
larged by Strongb ow in 
1171, and still further 
in the reign of Henry 
YIL, who granted con- 
siderable privileges to 
the citizens. Kfchard 
II. landed, and was 
crowned here in 1399. 
In 1690, James II. em- 
barked hence for 
France, after the bat- 
tle of the Boyne ; and 
King William ILL re- 
resided here twice, and 
I confirmed its privi- 
leges. 1 ' — Seward. 



23 



IY.— BRANCH FROM MALLOW TO KILLARKEY. 


ON EIGHT EROM 


c ?. 


STATIONS, etc. 


3 1 


ON LEFT EROM 


MALLOW. 


^S 




0' 


MALLOW. 


. 


41 


Mallow. 






39 







Dromore House, seat 
of A. Isewman, Esq. 

Gazabo Hill, a 
well-wooded conical 
hill, with a ruin on the 
summit. 


Lombard stown Ho. 


36 


HfFB cr. Lombardstown 
river. 


5 


Lombardstown 
Wood. 


«€* Kanturk, 3 m. 


30 


Banteer, 


11 


Mount Hillary 


distant. " Sometimes 
called Kintiirk" The 




A small village. 




range. 


name is from " Kean- 




Brisbane Castle, 






ttnrk, i. e.. a boar's 




the seat of H. Wallis, 






head, probably from 




Esq., is about a mile 






one of these animals 




from the town. The 






having been slain here 




demesne is extensive. 






by some Irish chief, in 




The castle was built 






former times." The 




in 1436 bv Derniot 






Macarthys formerly 




MacCarthy.* In 1641, 






held the* propertv. but 




his descendant Donagh 






forfeited it in * 1641. 




forfeited the property. 






" In Queen Elizabeth's 




The mansion is quad- 






time, they erected a 




rangular, with a cen- 






magnificent pile near 




tral tower, and strong 






this place, the walls of 
which remain entire. 




embattled towers at 








the angles. 






It was a parallelogram 










120 feet in length by 


21 


Mill street.. 


20 


Mill Street, <cr 


80 in breadth, flanked 








3 in, distant, is a little 


by four square build- 








town at the base of the 


ings. But being re- 








Cloragh mountain. 


presented to the coun- 










cil as a place which 








The Paps visible. 


might be made danger- 










ous to government, the 





Killarney, 


41 




building was put a stop 










to — though far from 










being fit to be made 










any use of to their pur- 










pose." — Seward. Some 










trade is done in wor- 










sted manufacture. 











24 



DUBLIN TO CORK. 

Thi? journey, which is 164f miles, takes the passenger 
through portions of five counties. The interesting obje: 
the route maybe specially visit >curing a ticke: for 

the nearest station, and continuing the journey by the next 
train, 

CLONDAIJQN, already d I teresting as afford- 

ing the tourist his first view of a round tower. Tiir : wet 

stands convenient to the railway. Though no record can be 
traced of the building of these memori Js,* it is of inter—: : 
know that they present architectural excellencies, seldora met 
with in modern works. remarks in his "Round 

Towers of Ireland" — 

•A stinking perfection observable in their construction- is the inimitable 
perpendicular invariably maintained. No architect of the present day could 
observe such regularity Neta lin) has been proved to 

vary somewhat from the perpendicular line, but the keenest eye cannot 
trace a deviation in a angle instance, from amongst the whole of tie Sabaean 
monuments. Even the tWer of Kilmacdui.. Tihray) one of the 

largest in the kingdom, having from soine~ accident* been forced to lean 
terrifically to one s. r_rm as before. Such was 

the accuracy of its :__ - uent employed in giving 

it solidity, and which is the direct count err . " .iian chunanL bids 

definnce'to the efforts of man to dissever, except by the exertion of extra- 
ordinary power." 

THE COUNTY KILL' ABE ". abont eleven miles 

from Dublin. The population in 1851 was 21 it rrurns 

two county members ; Parliament. A:::: ling to the ord- 
nance survey. (36.447 of 392.435 acres, included within its 
bounds, are nncultivate ing bog or mountain. Since 1831 
the population has decreased 1797. Hie soimty is composed 
chiefly of fine arable lands. "It was anciently, a ya S :~ard, 
"called ChiUe-dai i.e. the woo:. :: :;.'_: = . from a large 
forest which ximpiehended the mid<ile part of this county. 
In the centre of this wood was a large plain, sacred to heathen 
superstition and at present called the Curragh of Kildare; 
at the extremity of tins plain. a : ; v.: :ir : ommencement of the 
sixth century. St. Bridgid. me : the heathen vestals. :i her 
conversion to the Christian faith, founded, with the assistance 
of St. Conheth. a church and monastery, near which, after 
the manner of the Pagans, Si. Bridgid kept the sacred fire 
in a cell, the ruins of which are still visible.' 1 

s Canibrensis. who wrote in the twelfth century, regards them as of too 



KILDAEE COUXTY. 25 

The Curragh is a large plain, the property of the crown, 
containing 6000 acres of excellent pasture, on which the 
neighbouring proprietors and tenantry have the right of 
grazing to an almost unlimited amount. 

Xaas. which is most conveniently reached from Sailing 
Station, being two miles distant from it, is one of the princi- 
pal towns in the county, having been long the royal seat of 
Leinster. Xear the town is a mount or rath, of undoubted 
Danish origin. During the sixth, seventh, and eighth cen- 
turies, the states of the province of Leinster assembled there 
to deliberate on the affairs of the state ; the town was hence 
called Xass. which signifies "the place of the elders.'' On the 
arrival of the English. Xaas was fortified and bastions and 
towers erected to protect the walls, some of the remains of 
which are still visible. The Baron of Xaas founded in the 
twelfth century an Augustinian priory, dedicated to St. John 
the Baptist. Another was erected in the centre of the town 
by the Eustace family, for Dominican friars. Xaas is. alter- 
nately with Athy. the assize town. 

The Hill of Allen is seen to the right from the railway, 
before reaching Newbridge Station. It is situated in the bog 
of Allen, so well known for its extent and barrenness. It is 
generally asserted by the Irish that the poems attributed 
to Ossian. translated by Macpherson, are but lame piracies 
from the poems transmitted from parent to child in their own 
country. Finsral. it would seem, was no other than Ein-Mac- 
Coul. and his habitation, instead of the magical basaltic cave 
of Staffa. the bleak hill of Allen, in the midst of an immeasur- 
able bog. Even the shrewd Kohl has subscribed to this 
idea, but justly adds — 

" The Irish continually assure the stranger, that their poems are 
quite untranslatable., and would be as totally spoiled by transplanting into 
another language, as a beautiful flower by being covered with a coating of 
paint. Xo doubt it is difficult to transfer from one language to another, 
all the delicate aroma of poetry, but Macpherson has shown that a mere 
imitation, though assuredly an imperfect one, is sufficient to delight all 
Europe. At all events, they ought to be collected and printed in Irish." 

Kildare. though bearing the same name, is not the county 
town. The convert Bridget or Bridgid. after assisting St 
Conl?eth to found a monastery, set about the building of a 
nunnery. A cell in which she kept the "inextinguishable 
fire'-' is still pointed out. The nuns, in imitation of the "Ves- 
tal Virgins." kept the fire burning for nearly 'eight centuries. 
until Harry. Archbishop of London, had it extinguished in 
1220 : it was afterwards rekindled, and finally put out in th~ 
reign of Henry Till. In 638, Aod Dulh, or black Hugh, 



2b DUBLIN TO CORK. 

retired from the throne of Leinster, and took up his abode in 
the Augustinian Monastery : he afterwards became abbot and 
Bishop of Kildare. one of the few instances on record of a 
crown and sceptre being resigned for a mitre and crosier. " In 
756, Eiglitigin, the abbot, who was also Bishop of Kildare. 
was killed by a priest as he was celebrating mass at the altar 
of St. Bridgid. since which time no priest whatsoever was 
allowed to celebrate mass in that church in the presence of a 
bishop. r: The Franciscan Abbey, for "friars of orders grey." 
is situated on the south side of the town. The original founder 
(1260) was Lord William de Vesey; the completion of it was 
left to Gerald Fitz-Maurice O'Faley. De Vesey also founded, 
in 1290, an abbey for white friars. The town still contains a 
friary and nunnery, a Roman Catholic chapel, and various 
schools. 

Athy, situated midway between Kildare and Carlow. is 
more conveniently visited from the Kildare junction. This 
town is. alternately with Xaas. the seat of the assize for the 
county. Athy is chiefly interesting from its proximity to two 
historical spots. The first, the ancient Camien, now termed 
MuUimast, or Mnllach Mastean. "the moat of decapitation.'-' 
In the reign of Elizabeth it was proposed to the neighbouring 
Irish chiefs to meet at this spot to have their mutual animosi- 
ties and grievances explained and rectified. The chiefs came 
cheerfully to Carmen, where they were massacred. ''The 
moat of Ascul " has a more honourable memory. Here, in 
1315. the Scots, under Edward Bruce, fought a sanguinary 
battle in behalf of Irish freedom. The English were com- 
manded by Sir Hamon le Gros. 

QUEEN'S COUNTY is entered about thirty-six miles 
from Dublin. It sends two county members to Parliament. 
It contains an area of 396.810 statute acres, of which 60.972 
are unproductive, being mountain or bog. In 1831 the popu- 
lation was 145.851, in 1851 it had diminished by fully 36.000. 

Maryborough is the county town. About four miles 
distant is the •'Rock of Dun-a-mase." It is in the property 
of Lord Congleton. The rock was formerly completely covered 
with fine oak trees, but is now quite bare. This was the site 
of the castle of MacMorrough. King of Leinster. who gave it 
with his daughter as part of her dowry to the renowned Earl 
Strongbow. It*was frequently taken by the Irish, and again 
retaken by the English. 

Dr. Ledwich thus describes the spot. '•' The rock is an elliptical conoid, 
accessible only on the eastern side, which, in its improved state, was de- 



- 



TIPPERAEY COUNTY. 27 

fended by a barbican. From the barbican you advance to the gate of the 
lower baUium. It is seven feet wide, and the walls are six feet thick. It 
had a parapet, crenelles, and embrasures. The lower ballium is 312 feet 
from north to south, and 160 from east to west. You then arrive at the 
gate of the upper ballium, which is placed in a tower ; and from this begin 
the walls which divide the upper and lower ballium. The former is a plain 
of 111 feet from east to west, and 202 from north to south. On the highest 
part was the keep, and the apartments for officers." This place was ori- 
ginally the royal residence of Laoisach Hy-Moradh. The foundation of the 
fortress is ascribed to Laigseach, early in the third century. The Hy- 
Moradh family became united with the Hy-Morraghs, and hence the fortress 
passed into the royal family of Leinster. With Eva, daughter of Dermot, it 
passed into the hands of Strongbow, whose daughter brought it as a dowry 
to William Marshall, who succeeded, his father-in-law as Earl of Pembroke. 
The castle whose ruins now stand are ascribed to the latter occupier. In 
1325 the hereditary proprietor, O'More, got possession, and held it for four 
years ; and again, in the time of Edward III., his family held it for two 
years. 

" The only remains of this ancient castle and fortress are 
some of the walls and gates which are yet venerable in their 
ruins." 

TIPPEEAEY COUNTY, extendingfromthe Shannon to the 
Suir, is next entered. It ranks second to none in ecclesiastical 
monuments, and is one of the most fertile and productive in 
the kingdom. Like many other counties, its population has 
fallen off as the facilities for emigration have increased. In 
1831 it was 402,362, being an increase of 55,466 over the 
census of 1821 ; in 1851, the number of inhabitants was esti- 
mated at 323,829, being a decrease of 78,533 in the course of 
twenty years. The north-west of the county is bounded by 
Lough Derg, and will be more properly referred to in another 
portion of the work. 

Boscrea. Though the station for Eoscrea is in Queen's 
County, yet the town, which is eight miles thence, is situated 
on a point of Tipperary, within ten minutes' walk of King's 
County. This is, like most of its neighbours, a very ancient 
town. It occupies a fertile piece of land at the foot of the 
Slievebloom mountains. The abbey was founded by St. Crc- 
nan in the seventh century. A portion now stands with a 
rudely sculptured effigy of the saint. The " Shrine of St. 
Cronan," a circular cross with a carving of the crucifixion, 
stands in the churchyard. The round tower is situated near 
the abbey. In 1135 its summit was displaced by lightning. 
One of the towers of the castle of King John still stands, as 
also that built by the Ormonds in the reign of Henry VIII. 

Templemore is the next station after Eoscrea. The seat 
of Sir John C. Garden, the Priory, is one of the most beautiful 
in the county. The mansion, though modern, is built in a style 



28 DUBLIN TO CORK. 

approaching the character of ancient monasteries. The en- 
trance from the town is through a portion of an ancient castle 
of the Knights Templars. The grounds are extensive and 
well wooded. A sheet of water gives variety to the scene. 
On the southern side of this lake are the ruins of a large 
square keep, while the northern shore is ornamented by a por- 
tion of an ancient priory, exhibiting in its western wall a fine 
Gothic window. The present proprietor is resident ; he is the 
sod of a distinguished Waterloo officer. 

TJie Devil's Bit Mountain rises to the north-west of 
Templemore. This is a hill to which superstition has affixed 
a tradition and a name. Unlike that of Allen, it rises from 
a rich fertile tract ; its height is 1572 feet above the sea. 
When viewed from a distance a sudden gap is visible, not un- 
like that made in a piece of bread by a hungry school-boy ; 
judging that no teeth could be so sharp as those of " Xiekie 
Ben."' he has got the credit of the operation. 

Thwries is a town depending on the agriculture of the 
neighbourhood. It is prosperous, and tolerably clean. This 
town has frequently been the scene of conflicts between the 
Irish and the Danish and Saxon invaders. 

Holy- Cross Abbey is three miles from Thurles. and 
eight from Cashel. The village is humble. " but interesting 
from the pile of monastic ruins mouldering to decay in the 
midst of it." ''This abbey." say- Wright, "was commenced 
in 1182 by Donald O'Brien, king of North Munster. and the 
charter of its foundation was witnessed by Gregory. Abbot of 
Holy Cross. Maurice, Archbishop of Cashel. and Britius. 
Bishop of Limerick. 

" The style of its dedication is said to be attributable to a piece of the true 
Cross, that was presented in the year 1110 to Murtagh, monarch of all 
Ireland, by Pope Pascal II. This relic, set in gold and adorned with precious 
stones, was preserved in the abbey until the approach of the reformation, 
when it was saved from annihilation by the family of Ormonde ; by them it 
was committed to the Kanaught family, who delivered it to the Pvoman 
Catholic hierarchy of this district,, to which it anciently belonged. The 
holy relic measures only two inches in length, is very tliin, secured in the 
shaft of an episcopal cross, and enclosed in a gilt case." 

King John confirmed the charter of the abbey, and Henry 
III. took it under his protection. The abbot, as Earl of Holy 
Cross, was a peer in parliament : he was moreover " vicar- 
general of the Cistercian order in Ireland. " Many important 
persons made pilgrimages to the abbey during its zenith, but 
at the dissolution, so little was thought of it that, with all its 
valuable estates, it was granted to the Earl of Ormonde, at the 
annual rent of £15. <; The architecture of the nave is inferior 



CASHEL. 29 

to that of the tower, transepts, and choir. The tower is sup- 
ported on lofty pointed arches ; the roof groined in a style of 
superior workmanship, and pierced with five holes for the 
transit of the hell-ropes. "* The north transept, which is beauti- 
fully groined, is divided into two chapels ; one of them contains 
the haptismal font, and is lighted by a window of peculiar 
design. The south transept is similar to the north, and, like 
it, is adorned with tombs and monuments. 

"Wright says of the choir, — " It is adorned with two rich monumental 
relics, of designs entirely original, and unlike any sepulchral or ecclesiastical 
monuments to be seen in other countries. One which separates two little 
sanctuaries consists of a double row of pointed arches springing from pillars 
enriched with spiral flirtings, less rich, but resembling the "Apprentice's 
Pillar in Roslin Chapel. The base is ornamented with trefoils and finials, 
and at one side is a "small font for the reception of holy water. The interior 
dimensions favour the idea that this curious piece of architecture received 
the remains of the deceased during the performance of the funeral mass ■ but 
it is also conjectured to have been erected as a shrine for the reception and 
display of the sacred remnant of the true cross already spoken of. The 
other memorial alluded to is equally interesting from the beauty of its design, 
but its sepulchral appropriation is yet uncertain. A projecting canopy of 
stone is supported by trefoil arches, springing from slender columns of black 
marble. The soffit of the canopy is groined, and the pedestal of the monu- 
ment enriched with sculpture." 

This memorial occupies the place of honour, i.e., on the 
south side of the high altar, and hence is believed by many to 
be the tomb of the founder O'Brien ; but the arms with which 
it is enriched are those of England and France, with the But- 
lers' and Fitzgeralds'. t; From an inspection," says "Wright, 
11 of these heraldic proofs, and reference to the peerage, it is 
concluded that this elegant monumental structure was raised 
to the memory of the daughter of the Earl of Kildare, wife of 
James IV., Earl of Ormonde, commonly called ' The White 
EarV' who died about the year 1450/' Many doubts exist as 
to the piece of the " true cross;" but Dr. Petrie, the celebrated 
antiquarian, asserts that it still exists, and on the authority of 
Dr. Milner describes its appearance and preservation at the 
time of the dissolution. "As a monastic ruin," Dr. Petrie 
writes, ; ' the abbey of Holy Cross ranks in popular esteem as 
one of the first, if not the very first, in Ireland. But though 
many of its architectural features are of remarkable beauty, it 
is perhaps, as a whole, scarcely deserving of so high a charac- 
ter ; and its effect upon the mind is greatly diminished by the 
cabins and other objects of a mean character by which it is 
surrounded." 

Cashel. — The town of Cashel was once the residence of the 
* Wright. 



30 DUELIS TO CORK. 

kings of Monster, but is now a place of no nute save for its 

proximity to the strangest combination of ruins in Ireland.* 

The Rode of Casliel was the ancient habitation of the chiefs 
of the Magh Peimin. who were thence called Hy dun-na-moi. 
or " chiefs of the hill of the plain," a name which afterwards 
became corrupted into 0' Donahue. " In later ages they were 
distinguished by the name of Cartheigh, or inhabitants of the 
rock, whence descended the Macarthys, hereditary chiefs of 
this district/'" At present the rock of Cashel is covered with 
an assemblage of beautiful ruins of various dates. The most 
ancient of these is the chapel of Cormac MacCullinan, " at once 
king and archbishop of Cashel/' Cormac was born in 837 : 
he spent the early, and indeed the greater part of his life in a 
convent, composing while there the celebrated " Psalter of 
Cashel" about the year 900. This was a history of Ireland writ- 
ten in the Irish language. He was nearly seventy years of age 
before coming to the throne. He was soon entangled in war 
with the monarch Flan, which resulted in his own death in the 
year 90S. after a troubled reign of five years. The chapel is 
built of hewn stone — "both walls and roof, the sides or legs of 
which are tangents to a counter-arch, springing from the inner 
part of the walls. The doorway is in the Saxon style, which 
pervades also the other parts of the chapel, and is adorned with 
zig-zag and bead ornaments. Above the archway is the effigy 
of an archer in the act of shooting at an ideal animal. The 
ceiling or roof is of stone, groined, with square ribs springing 
from stunted Saxon pillars, with enriebed capitals. There is 
one rich Saxon arch, ornamented with grotesque heads of men 
and animals, placed at intervals all round from the base up- 
wards, and a second arch within the recess or crypt, probably 
intended to receive the altar. The walls are relieved by blank 
arcades, and the ceiling by numerous grotesque heads/' The 
pilasters of these arcades have been originally carved, but "'time's 

* " The great magician of the north arrived at Casliel on his way to the 

metropolis, and being unprepared for a spectacle so magnificent, and one so 
suited to the peculiar habit of bis soul, forgot bis intended journey, and was 
found wandering amongst the lone aisles of tbe cathedral at the" approach 
of night. Another eminent individnaL an eloquent candidate for the suf- 
frages of his countrymen, felt the inspiration of the ruined pile that, hanging 
over Ms rude forum, told him of the once proud pre-eminence of his country. 
' Here/* he exclaimed. ' my cradle was first rocked, and the first object that 
in my childhood I learned' to admire was that noble ruin, an emblem as well 
as a memorial of Ireland, which ascends before us at once a temple and a 
fortress, the seat of religion and nationality, where connciis were held, where 
princes assembled, the scene of courts and of synods, and on which it is im- 
possible to look without feeling the heart at once elevated and touched by 
the noblest as well as the most^solemn recollections, 1 " — W\ 



GASHEL. 31 

effacing finger" has swept the lines. The gilding as well has 
faded from their capitals. As it is, however, few could credit 
the beauty and magnificence evidenced by these walls. The 
existence of a stone roof has tended wonderfully to preserve 
from decay the carvings on the arches and capitals. The ca- 
thedral is of a later date, being built in the pointed style. In 
the year 1495 the turbulent Earl of Kildare, desiring to destroy 
Archbishop Creagh, set fire to the cathedral. It is recorded 
that — " He readily confessed his guilt, and added 'that he never 
would have done it, but that he thought the Archbishop was 
within at the time.' The candour and simplicity of his con- 
fession convinced king Henry that he could not be capable of 
the intrigues and duplicity with which he was charged ; and 
when the Bishop of Meath concluded the last article of the 
impeachment with the remarkable words, ' you see all Ireland 
cannot rule this gentleman,' the king instantly replied, ' Then 
he shall rule all Ireland,' and forthwith appointed him to the 
lord-lieutenancy of that kingdom." The cathedral is a con- 
spicuous object for a considerable distance round. Divine 
service continued to be performed within until the time of 
Archbishop Price, who in 1752 removed the roof from the choir 7 
and converted the whole into a ruin. " The extent of the nave 
and choir from west to east is about two hundred feet, and the 
steeple is in the centre of the cross." The round tower, like 
most others, has no written history. " The city," says Seward. 
" was originally surrounded by a wall, which though now 
mouldering, seems to have been of better materials than the 
generality of such enclosures ; two gates are still remaining of 
tolerable workmanship." In 1647 Lord Inchiquin stormed the 
rock, and put to death all the clergy he could find. 

Sore Abbey is situated under the cathedral. It was called 
11 St. Mary's Abbey of the Bock," and founded for Benedictines. 
In 1272 David MacCarvill, who was archbishop of Cashel, being, 
as he told his mother, forewarned in a dream that the black 
monks or Benedictines intended to cut off his head, banished 
them, and supplied their places with monks of the Cistercian 
order, for whom he founded Hore Abbey, and endowed it with 
the forfeited lands of the Benedictines. A stone is pointed out 
to the visitor a little way from the round tower, which is said 
to be that on which the Irish kings were crowned. Tradition 
states that the original stone, which had the power of uttering 
a groan when pressed by a royal personage, was lent to Fergus, 
king of Albanian Scots, for his coronation, and never returned 
to Ireland. The Scottish throne- stone was stolen, and placed 
in Westminster. Guides open the gates of the abbey for visi- 



32 DUBLIN TO CORK. 

tors, and favour them with an account of the ruins. The view 
from the rock is particularly pleasing, embracing a large extent 
of fertile land under good tillage. 

Fetlihrdis about nine miles fromCashel, to the south-east ; it 
is twelve miles from Cahir, and eight from Clonmel. This town 
is remarkable for the preservation of its walls and fortifications, 
erected in the time of King John. The town is at present 
entered by five ways, and three of these are through ancient 
castellated archways. 

Caliirdearg. " the crimson city," is the ruin of an old for- 
tress on the outside of the town ; it is now covered with grass. 
Banetstown Castle is also near, the spot where Ambrose Power 
was murdered in his own house by a number of the ruffians 
known as Whiteboys. The abbey was founded early in the 
fourteenth century. This was a borough before the Union, 
returning two members to Parliament. The patronage was in 
the family of O'Callaghan. 

MitcheUstown Caves are at the extreme south-west of 
the county, about six miles from the town of the same name 
(which is in County Cork), and ten miles from the Cahir sta- 
tion, in a south-western direction. There is an old cave which 
is seldom visited, and a new cave which was only discovered 
in 1833. by a quarryman who lost his crowbar, and going in 
search of it came upon the entrance of the cavern. The entrance 
to this cave is along a narrow passage for a distance of nearly 
300 feet. Several caves are met with in the expedition, which 
should never be undertaken without the assistance of one or 
two guides. AVhat is termed the lower-middle cave is thus 
described : — 

" In shape its ground-plan resembles a mattress, or "bottle with cylindrical 
neck and lobular bottom, the diameter of the latter being iiinety-five, and 
the length and diameter of the former seventy-two and forty -two feet re- 
spectively. The vertical section of its wider end is that of a dome or hemis- 
phere, tlie apex of which has an elevation from its base of thirty-five feet. 
Stalactites of small size depend from the roof, and a sheeting of sparry mat- 
ter is observable all along the joints of the limestone, and covers beneath 
many parts of the floor, where it is usually superimposed upon very fine red 
clay,* which would appear to have been washed down by water filtering from 
above before the interstices of the arch were sufficiently closed by calcareous 
incrustations. The floor of this cave is strewed with large tetrahedral blocks 
of limestone." 

The upper-middle cave is generally preferred to the lower. 
In shape, Dr. Apjohn says that the horizontal section may be 
taken as a semi-ellipse, ki the axis of which are respectively 180 
and 80 feet, the major pointing directly east and west.'' Va- 
rious forms of calcareous matter have received the names of 
the Organ, the Drum, the Pyramid, and such-like fanciful ap- 



CLONMEL. 33 

pellations. The caves are situated on the property of the Earl 
of Kingstown. 

Tipper ary, the town from whence the county derives its 
name, is situated on the plain at the base of the Slieve-na- 
muck hills, a portion of the Galtee range ; the name is said to 
be derived from the Irish Tobar-a-neidth, i.e., "the wall of 
the plains," in allusion to the situation of the town. 

Athassel, celebrated for its priory, is situated about a mile 
from Golden Bridge, about six miles from Dundrum station, 
five from Cashell, and seven from Tipperary. The priory was 
founded about the year 1200, by William Fitz-Adelin de Burke, 
for canons regular of the Augustinian order. The choir is 
stated to be forty-four feet by twenty-six, with lateral aisles. 
The finest remnant of the priory is its doorway in the tran- 
sition style of architecture. The founder died in 1204, and 
was buried at Athassel. He had been steward for Henry II. 

Cahir is a small town on the banks of the Suir. This 
is a " Quaker town," and has an appearance of cleanness and 
comfort. The castle was built at a very remote period, and 
has been at various times added to and repaired. In 1599 it 
was taken by the Earl of Essex, and in 1650 by Cromwell. 
In the neighbourhood is the seat of Lord Glengall. 

Clonmel is a station on the Waterford and Limerick 
Eailway, 27J miles from the junction and 134J from Dublin. 
This is now the chief town of the county. It is famous as being 
the birth-place of Sterne. " Clonmel consists of four streets ; 
it has a bridge of twenty arches over the Suir." The market- 
house is good. Several charities exist in the town. The 
name is accounted for by a tradition which states that a 
few of the gigantic inhabitants of early Ireland wanted a 
place to build a camp upon, and let off a swarm of bees, in 
order to settle on the spot selected by them. The bees, it is 
said, came down on a spot near the site of the present town, 
and on it was erected an ancient circular fort, seen at the 
present day. The spot then assumed the name of Cluain- 
mealla, the " Plain of Honey." On this circular mound a 
castle was built at a later period. It was here that Cromwell 
was so near giving up the siege which had already cost him 
2000 men. " He demolished the castles and fortifications, of 
which now only the ruins remain." The Gothic church has 
not shared the same fate as that on the Bock of Cashel. It is 
still used as a place of worship, and is consequently kept in 
good repair. The steeple is octagonal and embattled. Xear 
the top of it are Gothic openings in each of the eight sides. 



34 DUBLIN TO CORK. 

The Gothic tracery of the east window has been much ad- 
mired, being thought by some superior to that of the windows 
of Holy Cross. The base of the steeple is square, and seems 
to be of a much older date than any other portion of the build- 
ing. At the opposite side of the church is another square 
building, similar in every respect to the base of the steeple. 
It requires no great stretch of imagination to conceive that 
these are the remains of a building, ecclesiastical or baronial, 
of great antiquity. The churchyard is in a great measure 
encompassed by the old city wall. At intervals on it are ob- 
servable the remains of square towers. Various fine walks 
are to be had in the neighbourhood of the town. The favourite 
promenade is Fairy Hill Road. Heywood affords a pleasant 
walk, as also the AVilderness and the Quay. One of the holy 
wells of St. Patrick exists in the vicinage of Clonmel. but few 
pilgrims visit it now. The Countess of Blessington was a 
native of Clonmel. It was here that Mr. Bianconi established 
his system of cheap and expeditious car travelling, and from 
hence it has radiated over the south and west of Ireland. The 
rate of travelling is about six to seven Irish miles per hour, 
and the fares average about three-halfpence to twopence half- 
penny per mile. In fine weather no style of travelling could 
be more exhilarating. — See Appendix. 

Carrick-on-Suir is the next station after Clonmel. It 
is 41 miles from the Limerick junction, 14 from Waterford, 
and 168 from Dublin. This town is situated on the outside 
of Tipperary. being united to the County "Waterford by a bridge 
over the Suir, and within a few minutes' walk of the county 
Kilkenny. " The castle and park adjoining," writes Seward, 
" belong to the Butler family ; but both are now neglected. 
It was formerly a walled town, and part of the wall still re- 
mains. The woollen manufacture is carried on here very exten- 
sively, both of broad-cloths and rateens. It has a barrack for 
two troops of horse, and gives title of Earl to a branch of the 
Butler family, as it did formerly to the Duke of Ormond." 

COUXTY CABLOAV is. with the exception of Louth, the 
smallest county in Ireland, containing only 340 square miles 
of surface, and 219,863 acres, of which fully nine-tenths are 
under cultivation. The population in 1851 was 67,157. The 
county is completely inland, nor is it traversed by any consi- 
derable rivers. The Barrow passes through on the west side, 
and the Slaney runs almost parallel with it on the east. To 
the north Wicklow, Kildare, and Queen's County are the 



CAELOW — KILKENNY. 35 

boundaries. Kilkenny, on the west, unites at the southern ex- 
tremity with Wexford, the eastern boundary. 

Carlow, the county town, is on the river Barrow. It 
returns one member to Parliament, though in good old times 
before the Union it sent, or the Burtons — patrons — sent two. 
At that time the county sent in all six members, now reduced 
to three. The town is well built, and has a truly modern aspect ; 
and in the twelfth century it was a place of importance. Hugh 
de Lacy, lord-deputy of Ireland, erected the castle in 1179 to pro- 
tect the settlers from the Irish. The exchequer of the king- 
dom was established here in 1361 by the Duke of Clarence, 
who, moreover, had the town fortified. In 1494 the castle 
was taken from Sir Edward Poynings by James, brother of 
the Earl of Kildare ; another of the same family, Lord Thomas 
Fitzgerald, kept it during his rebellion in 1534. In the wars 
of the Protectorate it played an important part, being besieged 
and bombarded by the parliamentary forces ; and was finally 
surrendered on honourable terms. 

Ireton wrote a dispatch to the governor, requesting him to surrender, add- 
ing, " We have been your gentle neighbours hitherto, doing little more than 
looking upon you. But the time being come now that we are like to deal 
in earnest with your garrison as effectually and speedily as God shall enable 
us, that I may not be wanting on my part to save any of the blood which 
may be spilled therein, I am willing on a timely surrender, to give terms to 
so fair an enemy." 

Of the castle nothing now stands save a couple of towers 
and the connecting wall, the rest having been blown up with 
gunpowder by a medical gentleman, who, in 1814, contem- 
plated converting it into a lunatic asylum. Seward, who 
writes fifteen years before this event, describes the castle as it 
stood within the memory of many now living. " On an emi- 
nence," says he, "overhanging the river Barroiv, stands an 
old castle of an oblong square area, with large round towers at 
each angle, which has a fine effect." 

THE COUNTY KILKENNY borders on Carlow, which 
it more than doubles in extent and population, containing an 
area of 803 square miles, or 513,686 acres, and a population, 
according to the census of 1851, of 139,934. Scarcely a six- 
teenth part of the county is uncultivated. Two members are 
returned to Parliament for the county, and one for the county 
town. Coal mines are wrought in the north of the county, 
and a hard mountain limestone, abounding in molluscous re- 
mains, is plentiful, and well known as Kilkenny marble. 

Kilkenny City, one of the famous cities of the sister king- 
dom, possesses an abundance of archaeological remains. The 



36 DUBLIN TO CORK. 

population of the city in 1851 was 20,283 ; it is situated on 
the river Nore. 

"The entrance to Kilkenny," writes >". P. Willis, "and the romantic 
view of the castle of the Ormonds rising above the river, remind me strongly 
of one of the views of Warwick Castle. The first impression of the town 
from a cursory glance is extremely fine; the cathedral of St. Canice. the 
castle, and other very imposing structures, coming into almost every view, 
from the unevenness'of the ground, and the happily chosen sites of ail these 
edifices. Kilkenny is divided into two parts, called Irish-town the neigh- 
bourhood of the cathedral) and English-town ''that of the castle. . the latter 
thrifty-looking and well-built, and having an air of gentility, in which many 
of the* second-class of Irish towns are rather deficient" 

Kilkenny Castle was built in 1195, on the site of an older 
one destroyed by the Irish twenty-two years before. 

" The situation," writes Seward, "in a military view, was most eligible ; 
the ground was originally a conoid, the elliptical side abrupt and precipitous, 
with the river running rapidly at its base : there the natural rampart was 
faced with a wall of solid masonry, 40 feet high : the other parts were de- 
fended by bastions, courtins, towers, and outworks, and on the summit the 
castle was erected." 

The castle is still in possession of the family of Butler, de- 
scendants of the Ormonds. The appearance at the present 
day conveys the idea of comfort and elegance, as well as 
strength. The towers and bastions have been lately reeastel- 
lated. and the whole structure brought into a state of general 
repair. The building, with the exception of three massive 
towers, is of modern construction. The interior decorations 
are modern in style. Two valuable paintings by Vandyke, of 
Charles and Henrietta, are much admired, as also a portrait of 
one of the Marchionesses of Ormond. In 1319 James Butler, 
third Earl of Orruond, purchased the castle from the Pembroke 
family, and with his descendants it has remained until the pre- 
sent day. Richard II. spent two weeks in it with the Earl in 
1399. In March 1650, Cromwell having invested the city, 
opened his cannon upon the castle, H and a breach was effected 
on the 25th, about mid-day; but the besiegers were twice 
gallantly repulsed, and the breach was quickly repaired." The 
mayor and townsmen having traitorously admitted Cromwell 
into the city, and the latter being joined by Ireton, Sir Walter 
Butler judged it expedient, in order to save the people from 
massacre, to capitulate, which he did upon honourable terms, 
being complimented, as he marched, on his stout resistance, 
by Cromwell, who remarked, that he had " lost more men in 
storming that place than in taking Drogheda, and that he 
should have gone without it, had it not been for the treachery 
of the townsmen." 

St. Canice Cathedral is the most interesting anions; the manv 



KILKENNY. 37 

ecclesiastical remains in Kilkenny.* During the thirteenth, 
fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, great jealousies existed be- 
tween the two divisions of Kilkenny, and the law had fre- 
quently to interfere in behalf of the oppressed Irish, or to guard 
the rights of the English. The cathedral, though of consider- 
able antiquity, is in perfect repair. 

" It was commenced about the year 1180 by Felix O'Dullany, who trans- 
lated the see of Sagir from Aghaboe to Kilkenny. The greatness of the 
first design was such as its authors could never expect to see completed, 
which induced them to cover in and finish the choir, and proceed at once to 
consecration, leaving to posterity the sacred task of conducting the noble 

E' Ian to its consummation. This vast pile is cruciformed, extending 226 feet 
•om east to west, and the length of the transept measuring 123. The nave 
is distributed into a centre and two lateral aisles, communicating by pointed 
arches, springing from plain pillars of black marble. Four pointed' windows 
iUuminate each aisle, and the upper part of the nave is lighted by five quatre- 
foil windows. Many ancient monuments, differing in degrees of pomp and 
costliness, are erected in the side aisles, and augment the solitary graves of 
the venerable place, and the luxurious melancholy which such memorials in- 
spire. The tower, much too low in proportion to the lengths of the choir 
and transept, is supported upon groined arches, springing from massive co- 
lumns of marble. The western window is triplicated, and a cross and two 
Gothic finals crown the centre and angles of the great gable." 

Among the monumental remains is the tomb of Peter But- 
ler, eighth Earl of Ormond, and his termagant Countess, known 
by the Irish as Moryhyhead Ghearhodh. They both died in 
the sixteenth century. The Countess was a Fitzgerald, and 
warlike as any of the race. " She was always attended by 
numerous vassals well clothed and accoutred, and composing 
a formidable army." It is related that she levied black mail 
on her less powerful neighbours, much in the style of Rob Boy. 
There is a cenotaph to the memory of Dr. Pococke, bishop of 
Meath, who, while connected with Kilkenny, did much towards 
the restoration of St. Canice's Cathedral. 

St. John's, known as the Lantern of Ireland, from the num- 
ber of its windows, is now used as a parish church. Black 
Abbey is also an interesting ruin. It would be impossible 
within our limits to notice all the ruins and memorials with 
which Kilkenny abounds, or to do full justice to those which 
we do notice. Days may be well spent in searching them out, 
Kilkenny was the birth-place of " Banim, one of the first of 
the novelists." At Kilkenny several trials for witchcraft have 

* So numerous are church ruins in Kilkenny, that an elegant writer on 
Ireland makes the following characteristic remark -. — " Our way was guided 
through numerous alleys and by-lanes, to examine relics of the" olden'time ; 
we found wretched hovels propped up by carved pillars ; and in several in- 
stances discovered Gothic doorways converted into entrances to pig-styes." 
— HalVs Ribernia Mustrata. 



38 DUBLIN TO CORK. 

taken place, the most remarkable being that of Ladv Alice 
Kettell in 1325.* 

Jerpoint Abbey is near Thomastown. a station on the Irish 
South Eastern Railway, and eleven miles south of Kilkenny. 
It is situated on the river Xore. " In wealth, honours, and 
architectural splendours," writes X. P. Willis, " Jerpoint 
exceeded by no other monastic institution in Ireland. The 
demesne lands extended over 1500 acres of fertile ground, and 
the buildings included the abbey-church and tower, a refec- 
tory, dormitory, and offices, that occupied an area of three 
acres. The whole of this property, bequeathed for objects 
purely sacred, was granted at the dissolution to Thomas But- 
ler, tenth Earl of Ormonde, at an annual rent of £49 : 3 : 9." 
The founder was Donald M'Gilla Patrick. Prince of Ossory ; 
his tomb is placed opposite the high altar, ornamented with 
two recumbent figures. The architecture combines the Anglo- 
Norman and the Gothic styles : what remains is extremely 
beautiful, but wantonness and neglect have well nigh com- 
pleted the destruction of this, one of Ireland's chief attractions. 
A little way from Jerpoint is the round tower of Eilree. and 
near it a sculptured cross. 

Kelts is also reached from Thomastown Station. It is an 
ancient city, founded by a follower of Earl Strongbow's, called 
Geoffrey Fitz-Kobert, his object being to provide a garrison 
for the subjugation of the Tipperary Irish. Like most other 
of the invaders, he sought peace to his conscience by founding 
a religious house, which gradually became a place of greater 
importance until the grasp of Henry VJJL1. crashed it. The 
Prior was a spiritual lord in Parliament. Portions of the 
ruins now exist. There is a town of Kells in the county of 
Meath. where a monastery was founded by the famous St. 
Columbkille ; also a third place of the same name in the 
county Antrim. 

* The following is a paragraph from a letter by Mr. Croften Croker, on 
the subject of witchcraft in Ireland, published in the Dublin Journal : — 
" Ireland has been, in my opinion, unjustly stigmatized as a barbarous and 
superstitions country. It is certain that the cruel persecution carried on 
against poor and ignorant old women was as nothing in Ireland when com- 
pared with other countries. In addition to the three executions at Kilkenny, 
a town the inhabitants of which were almost entirely either English settlers 
or of English descent. I only remember to have met with an account of one 
other execution for the crime of witchcraft. The latter took place at Antrim 
in 1699. and it is. I believe, the last on record. The particulars of this silly 
tragedy were printed in a pamphlet entitled, ' The Bewitching of a Child in 
Ireland,' and from thence copied by Professor Sinclair, in his work entitled, 
' Satan's Invisible World Discovered/ which is frequently referred to by Sir 
Walter Scott in his Letters on Demonologv." 



WATERFORD COUNTY. 39 

^ COUNTY WATEEFOED is situated at the south of 
Tipperary, and hounded on the west by the county Cork, and 
south hy St. George's Channel. The county is generally 
styled " uninteresting, destitute of trees, and badly cultivated. ;J 
By the tables of Mr. M'Culloch, it would appear that little 
more than three-fourths of the land is under cultivation, the 
figures being 471,281 acres in total, with 118,034 cultivated. 
The population in 1851 was 135,834, which gives an average 
of about three and a-half acres for each inhabitant, being nearly 
the average for Ireland. 

Waterford City is seventy-seven miles from Limerick, 
fifty-five from the Limerick junction, and 181 or 113 from 
Dublin, according as the junction may be Kildare or Limerick. 
By the former route Tipperary, Cahir, Clonmel, and Carrick, 
are passed, by the latter Carlow and Kilkenny. The ancient 
name of Waterford was Cuanna-Frioth, or the Haven of the 
Sun. "It was afterwards called Gleann-na- Gleodh, or Valle) T 
of Lamentation, from the tremendous conflicts between the 
Irish and the Danes. By old Irish authors it is frequently 
named, from its shape, the Port of the Thigh. Its historical 
record states, that it was founded in 155, but made a consi- 
derable town under Sitric in 853."* On the lower end of the 
quay is a Danish tower, known as Eeginald's Tower, from the 
founder Eeginald, son of Imar ; it was built in 1003. In 
1171, when Strongbow and Eaymond le Gros took Waterford, 
it was inhabited by Danes who, with the exception of the 
Prince of the Danes, and a few more, were put to death. It 
was here that Earl Strongbow was married to Eva, daughter 
of the king of Leinster, and here too that Henry II. first landed 
in Ireland. There is a good quay on the Suir at Waterford. 
The distance from Liverpool is 229 miles. 

Steamers sail backwards and forwards once a-week. Tares 10s., stew- 
ard's fee 2s. 6d. Between Waterford and Bristol steamers ply once a-week, 
Tares 14s. and 10s. 

Hotels. — Commin's Commercial and Family, on the Quay. Charges — Bed 
Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 8d., lunch Is., dinner 2s. to 2s. 6d., tea Is. 6d., supper 
Is. to Is. 6d., attendance Is., private sitting room 2s. 6d. 3 one horse cars 6d. 
per mile, two horse cars Is. per mile. Dolbyn's, Commercial Buildings — 
Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d., lunch Is., dinner 2s., tea Is. 4d., supper Is., 
attendance Is., private room 3s. 

* K P. Willis. 



40 



CORK. 

Population in 1851, 86,485. 

Steam-packets to and from London, calling at Plymouth once a week. 
Fares to or from London, 30s. To or from Plymouth, 25s. Cork to Ply- 
mouth, 275 miles. 

To and from Liverpool twice a week. Pare, including steward's fee, 17s. 
6d. Distance, 283 miles. 

To and from Bristol twice a week. Pare, including steward's fee, 27s. 6d . 
Distance, 262 miles. 

Pares for Jaunting Cars, by Distance. 
A set-down within any place within the borough to another, for which 
a special fare shall not be appointed : — Pour- wheeled carriage, Is. ; two- 
wheeled car, 6d* 

To Blackrock Castle, 2s. and Is. 6d. 
To Blarney, 3s. and 2s. 6d. 
To Glanmire, 3s. and 2s. 



To Queenstown, 7s. and 5s. 6d. 
To Passage, 4s. and 2s. 6d. 
To Queen's College. 



Fares by Time. 
Notice of being hired by time must be given to the driver when starting. 

A drive within the borough not more than 20 minutes, 9d. and 6d. 

Over 20 and not exceeding 40 minutes, Is. 3d. and 9d. 

Over 40 minutes and not exceeding an hour, Is. 6d. and Is, 

For every half hour after the first hour, 9d. and 6d. 

A drive outside the borough not exceeding 20 minutes, 9d. and 6d. 

Over 20 and not exceeding 40 minutes, Is. 3d. and 9d. 

Over 20 minutes and not exceeding an hour, Is. 6d. and Is. 

For every half hour after the first hour, 9d. and 6d. 

For returning by the same road which the Carriage shall be taken, if not 
detained longer than one half hour, one-half of the above respective rates. 
If detained beyond half an hour, to be paid for one horse covered carriage 
Is., and for jaunting cars 6d. for every hour detained, and half fare back. 

Steamers sail for Blackrock, Passage, and Queenstown, several times 
each day. Fare 6d. 

Railway to Blackrock and Passage every hour, returning every half hour. 
Fares to Passage, 6d., 4d., and 2d. 

Hotels. — Imperial, Pembroke Street — Bed 2s. to 2s. 6d., breakfast 2s., 
lunch Is. 6d., dinner 2s. 6d. to 3s., tea Is. 6d., supper Is. 6d. to 2s., attend- 
ance Is., private rooms 3s. to 5s. Royal Victoria — Bed Is. 6d., breakfast 2s., 
lunch Is. 6d., dinner 2s. 6d., tea Is. 6d., supper Is. 6d., attendance Is., pri- 
vate room 3s. 6d. Hibernian, George Street— Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d., 
lunch Is., dinner Is. 6d., tea Is. 

Patrick's Bridge. Parliament Bridge. St. Patrick Street. Grand Parade. 
The South Mall. Great George Street. Mardyke. The Custom 
House. Shandon Steeple. The Royal Cork Institution. Cathedral of 
St. Fionn Bar. St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church. St. Mary's 
Church. City Gaol. County Gaol. Queen's College. District 
Lunatic Asylum. The Church of the Holy Trinity. Corn Exchange. 
Great Exhibition of 1852. Union Workhouse. New Cemetery. The 
Lough. 

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CORK. 41 

Cork is generally termed the capital of the south. It is a 
corporate city, returning two members to Parliament. It is 
governed by a mayor, sixteen aldermen, and forty-eight coun- 
cillors, with a staff of paid officials. The town is situated on 
a fork of the river Lee. The river Lee is fed by a choir of 
lesser streams issuing from the mountainous west, and after 
refreshing the city, widens out into a lough or bay which is 
nearly filled up with the Great Island, on which is situated 
the town of Cove, now changed into Queenstown, The prin- 
cipal feeders of the Lee are the Dripsey, the Lane, and Fohe- 
rish from the north, and the Sullane and Toon from the west. 
Cork had long been the home of a Pagan temple, on the site 
of which St. Fionn Bar, the anchorite from Gougane Barra, 
founded a cathedral in the beginning of the seventh century. 
The Danes, who in the ninth century overran the kingdom, 
are said to have been the founders of the city, and to have 
surrounded it with walls, although it is more probable that 
under St. Fionn Bar it had assumed a degree of importance, 
seeing that it is recorded, that his seminary was attended by 
700 scholars, " who flocked in from all parts."* 

Cork frequently devastated the whole country round, and 
was in turn punished by the neighbouring chiefs. The English 
settlers who had obtained a footing were held in great dislike 
by the natives, who for several centuries looked upon them 
as lawful spoil. The M'Carthys and O'Mahonys were ancient 
proprietors of the country. In 1493, Perkin "Warbeck, the im- 
postor king, was received in Cork with regal honours, in re- 
ward for which, the deluded mayor was hanged and beheaded, 
and the city lost its then ancient charter, which was restored 
to it in 1609. Ralph Holingshed the chronicler, whose works 
were published in 1577, thus describes the state of the city of 
Cork. 

" On the land side they are encumbered with evil neighbours — the Irish 
outlaws, that they are fain to watch their gates hourlie, to keep them shut 
at serTice-time, and at meales, from sun to sun, nor suffer anie stranger to 
enter the citie with his weapon, but the same to leave at a lodge appointed. 
They walk out at seasons for recreation with power of men furnished. 
They trust not the country adjoining, but match in wedloeke among them- 
selves onlie, so that the wnole citie is well nigh linked one to the other in 
affinitie." 

In the war of the protectorate, Cork held out as a loyal 

* " Corroch or Corcagh, the Irish name of Cork, is, like all Irish names of 
places, strikingly descriptive. It signifies a sicamjp, to which the situation 
of the city, on two marshy islands, fully entitles it. The whole district on 
the south 'and west of the River Lee was called Corcagh Lirighe, i.e. Cork of 
the Lee." 



42 COKK. 

city, and in 1649 was surprised and taken. The cruelties 
perpetrated by the conqueror and his soldiers are only loo 
well known. * Though Cork is now a well built and really 
handsome city, if we except some of the meaner streets in the 
northern pan. the houses were at one time so closely packed, 
and the streets so narrow, that it might be said of most of 
them as of the " auld brig o ! Ayr." 

poor narrow footpath o' a street. 



Where tw ^ wheelbarrows tremble when they meet." 

One narrow lane, not a dozen feet wide, still bean the dis- 
tinguishing title of ,; Broad Lane." ""In old Bridewell Lane, a 
passage not more than four feet in breadth, stood the corn 
market. In similar narrow lanes were to be found the fish 
market, post office, and assembly rooms. In Dingle Lane 
stood the old theatre, upon whose boards Barry and Mossop 
delighted their audience, about the middle of the last century." 
The principal modern streets are in that portion of the town 
known as the island, bounded almost completely by the river. 
This island is connected with the shores on either side by 
six bridges, four spanning the stream on the south, and two 
on the north. 

Patrick's Bridge crosses the stream which bounds the city 
on the north. It is a beautiful bridge, supported on three 
elliptical arches with a handsome balustrade. It was erected 
in 1798. The material is entirely hewn limestone. In 1851 
an accident attended with fatal results occurred to it. The 
rain, which had for some weeks been almost incessant in the 
mountainous districts, and flooded more than one house in 
the city, gave such an impulse to the stream, that it roared 
through the arches of the bridge like a cataract, and event- 
ually earned away a portion of one of them. 

Parliament Bridge is on the south side, leading into 
the South Mall. It is a fine bridge, not much inferior to 
St. Patrick's. The other bridges are of no note. On the 
north is North Bridge, and on the south Clark's. South, and 

* t: It is related that Cromwell during his short sojourn in Cork, caused 
the church bells to be cast into cannon. On being remonstrated with 
against committing such a profanity, he replied that, as a priest had been 
the inventor of gunpowder, he thought the best use for bells would be to 
cast them into cannons. The jest is not very brilliant, but as one of the few 
that Cromwell attempted, it is worthy of bemg »enred 

It was in Cork that William Penn. the father of Pennsylvania, became 
a convert to Quakerism. He visited the city in order to look after some 
of his father's property., and changed his religion under the preaching of 
one Thomas Loe. He" was thrown into prison with eighteen fellow con- 
verts, but soon after released. 



CORK. 43 

Anglesea Bridges. The streets deserving of notice for their 
beauty are few. 

St. Fati'ick Street, which takes its rise at the bridge 
of the same name, forms an irregular crescent extending 
in a westerly direction to the Grand Parade. The street 
is of great width, but unfortunately for architectural effect, the 
houses are so irregular as regards height, material, and design, 
as in a measure to destroy the beauty of the whole. 

Grand Parade is a fine straight street, but has the 
same fault as St. Patrick Street. The tourist will hardly 
believe that when crossing either of these streets he has a 
channel underneath his feet : yet such is the truth. The old 
court-house and an equestrian statue of George II. are the 
most conspicuous objects in this street. 

The South Matt runs at right angles with the Parade. 
Though not the widest, it is yet the most respectable street in 
Cork, being occupied by professional men. and men of business. 
About a hundred years ago the middle of this street was a river. 
and the south side formed one side of a triangular island, the 
other two sides being formed by Charlotte Quay and Morrison 
Quay. The Bank of Ireland, the Stamp Office, and the County 
Club IJouse, are situated in this street — the latter building 
erected in 1826 at an outlay of £4000 ; as also the Com- 
mercial Buildings and the Cork Library. 

Great George Street is the newest and most regular street 
in Cork : it is continued as the Western Eoad. Parallel with 
this latter is the celebrated 

Mardyke, once the promenade of the ton of Cork, though 
now consigned to the tradespeople and shopkeepers. It is 
certainly a very fine walk, extending to a distance of a mile, 
and overshadowed by tall elm trees, whose luxuriant branches 
entwine above in a roof of soft verdure. The aspect of this 
fine avenue is varied, if not heightened, by a row of lamps sus- 
pended overhead. To the left we have a view of the Queen's 
College, situated on a slight eminence over the southern fork 
of the river. Cork, though a well-built city, possesses no really 
magnificent buildings, such as the Four Courts, the Custom 
House, or the Bank, in Dublin. AVe will merely then give a 
cursory glance at a few of the principal. 

The Custom House, which is a handsome building. 
occupies a tongue of land where the two streams meet at a 
somewhat acute angle on the western side of the city. To 
the west of it is the whole stretch of the river Lee : on the 
north the terminus of the railwav to Dublin ; and on the south 



44 CORK. 

the Cork and Bandon and the Cork and Passage Bailway ter- 
mini. 

Shandon Church is a plain, rather grotesque - looking 
edifice, with a steeple which seems as if huilt in storeys. 
The church was begun in 1722, " and its steeple was con- 
structed of hewn stone from the Franciscan Abbey, where 
James II. heard mass, and from the ruins of Lord Barry's 
castle which had been the official residence of the lords-presi- 
dent of Munster, and from whence this quarter of the city 
takes its name. Shandon (Seandun) signifying in Irish the 
old fort or castle."* Three sides of the steeple are built of 
limestone, and the fourth of a red stone. Its height is 120 
feet. Shandon, however, is celebrated on account of the lyrics 
which it has given rise to. We quote two stanzas from that 
by the Eev. Francis Mahony. 

" With deep affection " I've heard bells chiming 

And recollection Full many a clime in, 

I often think of Tolling sublime in 

Those Shandon bells, Cathedral shrine ; 

Whose sound so wild, would, While at a glibe rate 

In the days of childhood, Brass tongues would vibrate, 

Ming round my cradle But all their music 

Their magic spells. Spoke nought like thine." 

The Royal Cork Institution was founded in 1803 u for 
the diffusion of knowledge, and the improvement of the 
arts and sciences." The library is extensive, embracing 
valuable modern works, and interesting Irish manuscripts. 
The museum contains, among other treasures, a series of the 
stones " inscribed with the Ogham character, peculiar to Ire- 
land, and used by the Druids previous to the introduction of 
Christianity, when those simple letters were gradually dis- 
carded, and the Boman substituted." 

The Cathedral of St. Fionn Bar is on the south side of the 
southern stream. " In the reign of Edward IV., there were 
eleven churches and parishes in and adjoining the city. Some 
of these have long ceased to exist, but their loss has been 
amply compensated by the number of churches, chapels, 
and dissenting houses of worship, which have sprung up in 
modern times." The cathedral has no great beauty to recom 
mend it to the tourist's special attention. It is a small build- 
ing, with plain exterior and interior. The original edifice 
stood in a state of ruin until 1725, when it was taken down 
and rebuilt ten years after. In the churchyard stood until 
this time a round tower, described as 100 feet in height. 
* Crofton Croker. 



CORK. 45 

St. Patricks Roman Catholic Church is a peat "building 
in the Grecian order of architecture. A portico stands in 
front supported by eight lofty columns ; a cupola rests on the 
roof, borne upon eight Corinthian columns, each surmounted 
by a figure representing one of the apostles. A cross rises 
over the whole. 

St. Marys Church, belonging to the Dominicans, is 
another Grecian structure. The hexastyle portico is Ionic. 
The exterior decorations are not yet completed, but the interior 
is handsomely fitted up. Adjoining the church is the priory, 
the residence of the clergymen. A noviciate college is intended 
to be instituted in connection with it. 

The City Gaol is at the north-west angle of the town, 
It is a spacious castellated building, with sixty-two separate 
cells, being fifty-four for male, and forty-eight for female 
prisoners. A portion is appropriated to the confinement of 
prisoners previous to their committal by the magistrates. 

The County Gaol is separated from the last by the 
two rivers, the Mardyke and the Western Road. From the 
latter it is approached. This prison is nearly self-supporting. 
The inmates are taught weaving, matt-making, shoe-making, 
tailoring, &c. It is affirmed that " 634 have been instructed 
in one year, in various trades and employments, of which they 
knew nothing whatever on entering the prison." 

QUEEN'S COLLEGE occupies a picturesque site on a 
rock rising fully forty feet above the level of the southern 
branch of the stream. Gill Abbey, founded in the seventh 
century by Gill Ada, Bishop of Cork, stood on the same site. 
The college buildings consist of three sides of a quadrangle, 
in the Gothic style of architecture, and composed of mountain 
limestone. Sir Thomas Deane was the architect, and Mr. 
John Butler of Dublin, the builder. In 1849 the college was 
opened. The examination hall, the museum, the lecture rooms, 
and the library are worthy a visit. The northern side of the 
quadrangle is occupied as residences by the president Sir 
Robert Kane, F.R.S., and the vice-president John Ryall, 
LL.D. 

As the principles of the Queen's Colleges of Cork, Galway, 
and Belfast are identical, it will not be out of place here to 
give a sketch of that of Cork as illustrating the whole. The 
college is open to all religious sects. There are twenty pro- 
fessors lecturing on, and teaching languages and sciences, 
including Greek, Latin, the modern and the Celtic tongues, 
medicine, surgery, natural history, botany, geology, mathe* 



46 CORK. 

matics, and chemistry; besides classes for engineering, 
agriculture, law, and almost every subject required to be 
known by an intelligent professional man. The honours con- 
ferred by the college are M.D., A.B., and A.M., besides di- 
plomas of agriculture and civil engineering. Four years' 
study is required for the degree of A.M., which costs in class 
and other fees £32. The degree of A.B. may be had in three 
years at a cost of £29. In order to encourage a spirit of emu- 
lation among the students, scholarships are open to them in 
literature and science. As an example of the system pursued 
in conferring scholarships and degrees, we will quote from a 
prospectus the course of study required for the diploma of 
agriculture. The term of study is two years. Before enter- 
ing he must pass a matriculation examination on the following 
subjects : — 

The English language. — Grammar and Composition — Modern Geography 
— The First Four Rules of Arithmetic — Proportion — Vulgar and Decimal 
Fractions — Extraction of the Square Root. 

Students who have passed the matriculation examination 
are admitted to the examination for scholarships of the first 
year. 

Subjects of Examination for Agricultural Scholarships of 

first tear. 
English Grammar and Composition — Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal 
Fractions— Involution, Evolution, Proportion and Interest— Bookkeeping — 
Mensuration— Outlines of Modern Geography. 

Course of Study for the Diploma of Agriculture. 

First Tear.— Natural Philosophy— Chemistry— Natural History— The 
Theory of Agriculture. 

Second Year.— Geology and Mineralogy— History and Diseases of Farm 
Animals, and Practical Veterinary Surgery, &c. — Land Surveying— Practice 
of Agriculture. 

The students are compelled to lodge in licensed boarding 
houses, which are under the inspection of " Deans of Eesi- 
dences." There are three deans, one an Episcopalian, one a 
Presbyterian, and one a Eoman Catholic. 

The District Lunatic Asylum is calculated to contain 530 
classified patients. It is in the Gothic style of architecture, 
consisting of three buildings. 

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Gothic building, 
chiefly interesting from it having been founded by Theobald 
Mathew, the apostle of temperance. The stained glass win- 
dow which it contains was purchased with the fund raised in 
Cork for the O'Connell monument. Father Mathew received 
the rudiments of his education at Kilkenny, thence he proceeded 



CORK. 47 

to Maynooth, and in Dublin took orders. In Cork he com- 
menced his labours ; there he commenced his career as the 
preacher of temperance. His brother, a distiller, supplied him 
with funds, but was at length brought to bankruptcy. Govern- 
ment settled upon him an annuity of £300, in consideration 
of his exertions as a moral reformer. 

The Corn Exchange is a spacious erection, containing a 
Northern Hall seventy-five feet square, by forty-five feet high ; 
and a Fine Arts Hall, of much larger dimensions. In this 
building was held the National Exhibition of 1852. 

The Union Workhouse is an appendage to every town in 
Ireland. "This is the largest union in Ireland." The 
workhouse was opened for paupers in 1840. The building 
consists of a centre and two wings, with workshops, schools, 
and hospitals. The inmates work at tailoring, weaving, and 
other trades. A large corn-mill is attached, which is worked 
by the paupers. 

The New Cemetery is about a mile distant from town. 
It was formerly the Botanic Garden, and was converted into a 
cemetery by Father Mathew in 1826. The ground is well 
laid out, and neatly planted. Among the finer specimens of 
sepulchral architecture which it contains, is a sarcophagus of 
Portland stone, surmounted by a figure in w T hite Italian 
marble of an angel by Hogan, a native of Cork. 

To the south-west of the town is a piece of water, only 
interesting as the scene of one of Croft on Croker's fairy 
legends. "He says that it was once a small fairy well, 
covered by a stone, concerning which a tradition had been 
handed down from remote times, which predicted, that if the 
stone which covered the well were not replaced every morning 
after the dwellers in the valley had taken from it their daily 
supply of water, a torrent would rush forth and inundate the 
valley, and drown all the inhabitants. This calamity was at 
length incurred by a certain princess, who, neglecting the 
injunction, forgot to close the mouth of the well, and caused 
the destruction of her father and his people." 

Few towns in Ireland can boast a wider range of ably 
supported benevolent and charitable institutions than Cork. 
Besides a savings bank and two charitable loan societies, it 
has infirmaries and hospitals for fever, lunacy, and other infir- 
mities. It can boast no less than eight scientific institutions. 
In justice we are bound to confess, as a proof of the destitu- 
tion and improvidence which prevails, that there are no less 
than thirty-three pawnbrokers within the city. 



48 



QUEENSTOWN, OR THE COVE OF CORK. 

Steamers from Patrick's Bridge several times each day, fares 6d. and 3d. 
Railway to Passage every hour, fares 6d ; , M., and 2d. Railway steamers 
meet the trains, and convey passengers to and from Queenstown, fares 2d. 
and Id. Distance from Cork to Queenstown, 11 miles. 



Patrick's Bridge. 
Merchant's Quay. 
Custom House. 



River Lee. 
Blackrock. 



Monkstown. 
Pares for Rowing Boats. 



Great Island. 
Queenstown. 
Spike Island. 



Queenstown to Spike or Hawlboline with four oars, Is. ; with two oars, 
6d. To Rostellan, 3s. 6d. or Is. 6d. 

Boats not detained more than half an hour convey the passengers back 
for half the fare. 

Hiring by the Hour. 

For the first hour, Is. or 9d. ; for every hour after the first, 6d. 

Hiring by the Day. 

Hired at Cork, 7s. 6d. or 4s.; at Blackrock, 7s. to 3s. 6d.; at Queens- 
town, Monkstown, or Passage, 5s. or 2s. 6d. 

To Cloyne.— Oared boat to Rostellan, thence by road, passing — 

Saleen. Cloyne. Round Tower. 

Castle Mary. Cathedral. I 

The sail from Merchants' Quay to Queenstown is one of 
the most agreeable nature, on a fine wide river, whose frequent 
baylets and promontories afford at the shortest intervals a 
change of scene sufficient to beguile even the most languid 
tourist. Even the stations on the way have their charms. 

BLACKROCK is the first promontory worthy of note 
From the distance its appearance is truly picturesque, pre- 
senting the idea of a formidable old castle, standing out on a 
tongue of land against the clear waters of the Lee. The 
mansion is one of modern construction, and is familiar to 
almost every one from the many views of it published. Black- 
rock is supposed to be the place from which William Penn 
embarked for America. The steamer, shortly after leaving 
this station, enters a wider portion of the river, known as Loch 
Mahon. Foaty Island, the property of J. Barry, Esq., is passed 
on the left. 

PASSAGE, which is about five miles from Cork, is the 



COEK TO THE COVE. 49 

next station. It is a little town, of some note as a watering 
place, and of still more, as the station where all vessels of too 
great tonnage to pass up the river so far as Cork discharge 
their cargoes. Not many years ago. a good harbour was 
built. This is the terminus of the railway. 

MONKSTOWN is situated about a mile from Passage, 
and beyond it the river widens out into a lake. The castle 
which is now a ruin, was built in 1636. The story of its erec- 
tion is curious, and we take the liberty of extracting it from 
Hall's celebrated work, Hibernia Illustrate. 

<( Anastatia Goold, who had become the wife of John Archdeken, deter- 
mined, while her husband was abroad serving in the army of Phillip of Spain, 
to give him evidence of her thrift on his return, by surprising him with a 
noble residence which he might call his own. Her plan was to supply the 
workmen with provisions and other articles they required, for which" she 
charged the ordinary price, but as she had made her purchases wholesale, 
upon balancing her "accounts it appeared that the retail profit had paid all 
the expenses of the structure except fourpence." 

Hence the common saying that Monkstown Castle was built 
for a groat. 

QUEEXSTO WN was originally called Cove, and received 
its present appellation from the visit of Her Majesty in 1849. 
The town has a southern aspect, and being built on a hill is 
never wet and dirty. It is much frequented by invalids, on 
account of the salubrity of the climate. The heights above 
the town command an extensive range of picturesque scenery. 
Among the surrounding islands 

SPIKE ISLAXD is most conspicuous, being the largest. 
It is a convict depot, with accommodation for 2000 convicts, 
who are employed in excavating, building, and various handi- 
crafts. An order from the governor is required by those 
visiting the depot. 

ROCKY ISLAND contains the powder magazine, which 
occupies six chambers excavated in the solid rock. It usually 
contains about 10.000 barrels of gunpowder, besides other 
species of ammunition. An order frorn the commandant of 
the ordnance department is required for the magazine. 

HAWLBOLIXE is an island opposite the last. It con- 
tains the ordnance stores, an armoury, and a fresh-water tank 
capable of holding 5000 tons. Xo restriction is placed upon 
visitors to the island. 



50 CORK — CLOTHE . 

THE HARBOUR OF CORK is one of the most extensive 
and commodious in the United Kingdom, being capable of 
affording shelter to the entire British navy. Into it, Drake 
retreated when hotly pursued by the Spanish fleet. Cross- 
haven is the name of the creek into which he sailed, and where 
he was so effectually hidden, that the Spaniards were completely 
lost in conjecture as to his whereabouts, and actually spent 
days in fruitless search for him in the river, concluding that 
nothing short of magic could have taken him so suddenly out 
of their grasp. The spot is to this day known as" Drake's 
Pool." Every tourist who has sailed down the Cork River so 
far as the harbour, is enthusiastic in his praise of the scenery. 
Arthur Young states, that " the country on the harbour, he 
thought preferable in many respects to anything he had seen 
in Ireland."' Another author states, that :, no part of the 
scenery is barren or uninteresting ; a perpetual variety is pre- 
sented along the whole course. The eye, whilst lingering over 
some happy picture, is continually attracted by some new suc- 
cession possessing all the charms of the most romantic land- 
scape,' 1 and Mflner says, that " neither the Severn at Chepstow. 
nor the sea at Southampton are to be compared to it." 

Dr. Scott of Cork writes that "the salubrity of the climate is such that it 
has been chosen as a residence by many invalids who would otherwise have 
sought the far off scenes of Montpellier or Madeira, with their vehement 
suns and less temperate vicissitudes of climate. The many recoveries here 
have justified the selection, and proved the restoring and invigorating prin- 
ciples of the atmosphere. An admirable equability of climate, and an 
absence of sudden and violent interruptions, are the great characteristics 
which have so beneficially marked out this town to the ailing and debilitated, 
and established its reputation." 

Tt is interesting to note, that Tobin. the author of the ad- 
mired comedy of the Honeymoon, died within sight of land, 
on his way to the West Indies, and was buried on Great Island ; 
so was "Wolfe, who composed the incomparable lines on the 
burial of Sir John Moore, beginning — 

" Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note. 5 ' 
The Rev. Charles Wolfe died at Cove, of consumption, in 1823. 

CLOYNE. 

A pleasant excursion may be had to the mansion of Ros- 
tellan, and the monastic ruins of Cloyne. 

Bostellan Castle, the princely seat of the Marquis of Tho- 
rn ond. The modern mansion is built on the site of an 
ancient castle of the Fitzgeralds, who were for centuries 
seneschals of Imokilly. In the castle is an ancient sword said 



CORK — CLO YNE . 5 1 

to have belonged to the great Brian Boroimhe, the ancestor of 
the present proprietor, who is an O'Brien. The demesne is 
extensive and well planted. Visitors are freely admitted. It 
may be well to continue the excursion on foot, passing the 
modest hamlet of Soleen and the contiguous demesne of 

Castle Mary, in the vicinity of which is one of those 
druidical remains, known as cromlechs. "It is an immense 
mass of limestone of an oblong shape, one end resting on the 
ground, and the other extremity supported by two huge up- 
right stones." The large stone is fifteen feet long by about 
eight in breadth, and three to four in thickness. " Adjoining 
this great altar is a smaller one of a triangular shape, and, like 
the other, it is supported by two uprights in an inclined posi- 
tion. It is supposed that this lesser stone might have been 
used for the purposes of common sacrifice, while the greater 
altar was reserved for occasions of extraordinary solemnity."* 
The belief that these cromlechs were not altars but frame-works 
for the accumulation of cairns, has already been noticed. 
The writer we have just quoted states that "an ingenious 
conjecture has been advanced, that they were placed in an in- 
clined position, to allow the blood of victims slain upon them 
to run off freely." Certain it is that most if not all cromlechs 
already discovered have an inclined position. 

CLOYNE is situated in the vale of Imokilly about a mile 
from Castle Mary. Thus near a heathen altar a Christian 
church was erected in the sixth century by the pious St. Cole- 
man, a disciple of St. Fionn Bar or Finbar, the founder of 
Cork. "The ancient name of the place, " we are told, "was 
Cluaine-uamhach, or the retreat of the caves, the propriety of 
the designation being evident from the numerous caves which 
exist in the neighbourhood. One very remarkable cavern may 
be seen in a part of the Episcopal demesne, called the Bock 
Meadow. " The portions of the cathedral remaining are the 
choir, nave, and north and south transepts, the former of 
which had been rebuilt by Bishop Agar in 1776 in a style not 
at all in harmony with the ancient character of the original 
design.f On the death of the celebrated astronomer Brinkley, 
in 1835, the see merged into that of Cork and Ross. 

Bishop Berkeley, celebrated as an immaterialist, whose private character 
called from Pope the declaration that he possessed 
" Every virtue under heaven," 

* J. S. Coyne. 

t An altar tomb in the north transept, with the shattered remains of a 
mailed figure, is said to have belonged to r the Fitzgeralds. 



D'l CORK — BLARXET. 

Bur whose news gave rise to Byron's satirical lines, 

'•' Bishop Berkeley says there is no matter, 
"Which proves it is no matter what he says." 
held the see in the time of George II. He was a native of Thomastown, 
born in 1684, attended the same school in Kilkenny as Swift had done, ob- 
tained a fellowship in Trinity College. Dublin, was" chaplain to the Earl of 
Peterborough on his embassy to Italy and Sicily, obtained in 1724 the 
deanery of Deny, visited Bermuda for the purpose of establishing a college 
for native teachers, and was eventually consecrated Bishop of "Cloyne in 
17-34. He died at Oxford in 1753, 

In the churchyard adjoining the cathedral are the ruins 
of a little building known as St. Coleman's Chapel. It is 
believed that, until within a comparatively recent period, this 
building contained the remains of the founder. In 707 a 
monastery was founded at Cloyne. Xear the church are the 
remains of a round tower, originally" ninety-two feet high. 
The summit being demolished by lightning, an embattlement 
has been placed round it, raising it to a height of 102 feet. 
Dr. Smith * gives the following account of the catastrophe : — 

;; On the night of the 10th of January, a flash of hghtning rent the coni- 
cal top. tumbled down the hell and three lofts, forced its way through one 
side of the building, and drove the stones, which were admirably well" joined 
and locked into each other, through the roof of an adjoining stable/ 5 

CORK TO BLARNEY. 

Cars for 2s. 6d. or 3s. — Distance. 5 miles. 
Blarney Castle — Stone — Lake — Cromlech. 

The romantic scenery of the "Groves." and the Magic Stone 
of "Blarney." maybe visited either by stopping at the 
station of the same name, or by a drive or walk from 
Cork. The latter arrangement is usually preferred. The 
distance from Cork is about five miles, and the cost of a 
jaunting car 2s. 6d. 

The drive along the north bank of the river is generally 
preferred, on account of the beauty of the scenery commanded 

from some points of the road. 

TJie Castle of Carrigrolian. until lately a ruin, but now 
elegantly fitted up by its present proprietor, Mr. M'Swiney, 
stands upon a rock on the opposite shore. The country on 
the way is delightfully wooded, and frequently affords peeps 
of the square donjon of Blarney. 

BLARNEY CASTLE was built iu the middle of the 

fifteenth century by Corniac M'Carthy, surnamed. on account 
* Historv of Cork . 



CORK — BLARNEY. 



53 



of his prowess, the Strong. It consists now of a strong don- 
jon tower about 120 feet in height, and a lower portion of less 
substantial build, though almost strong enough to warrant the 
conjecture that before the introduction of gunpowder, it must 
have been impregnable. It is curious to notice the effect of a 
few lines, containing in themselves perhaps no merit save their 
absurdity in gaining a world-wide popularity for a place which 
otherwise would scarcely be heard of beyond its own imme- 
diate vicinity. 

The Blarney Stone had long been a bye-word among the 
Irish, though how the saying arose it is difficult to form a con- 
jecture ; but it had not reached its full zenith of talismanic 
power until 1799, when Millikin wrote his celebrated song of 
"The Groves of Blarney," not to the same air as Moore 
adapted his "Last Rose of Summer," but to another old Irish 
air beginning, 




ins 



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gpj= 



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9-1 — r— o-. 



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The stone generally pointed out as the "real stone" is 
situated on the top of the building, and besides a sculptured 
trefoil bears the date 1703. Many writers assert that the 
"real stone" is not to be reached unless the "curious tra- 
veller " will have himself to be lowered a distance of twenty 
feet from the top. It bears an inscription — 

COKMACH MAC CARTHY FORTIS 
ME. FIERI FECIT. AD. 1446. 

In order to sip inspiration from this stone, it is required that 
the tourist be suspended by the heels in mid-air. "A curious 
tradition attributes to it the power of endowing whoever 
kisses it with the sweet, persuasive, wheedling eloquence so 
perceptible in the language of the Cork people, and which is 
generally termed 'Blarney.'' This is the true meaning of 
the word, and not as some writers have supposed, a faculty of 
deviating from veracity with an unblushing countenance 
whenever it may be convenient."* 

* J. S. Coyne, 



54 CORK — BLARNEY. 

The song which has achieved for itself and the " Groves " a world-wide 
reputation was written as a burlesque upon some of these wcidy ditties with 
which ignorant pedantry used to astonish the village circles. From the ver- 
sion published in Mr. Crofton Croker's " Popular Songs of Ireland," we 
quote a sample of the song : — 

u The groves of Blarney, " 'Tis there's the daisy, 

They look so charming, And the sweet carnation, 

Down by the purling The blooming pink, 

Of sweet silent streams, And the rose so fair, 

Being bank'd with posies The daffodowndilly, 

That spontaneous grow there Likewise the lily, 

Planted in order All flowers that scent 

By the sweet rock close. The sweet fragrant air." 

The version published in the " Reliques of Father Prout" contains the 

allusion to the " Stone." 

• : There is a stone there, A clever spouter 

That whoever kisses, He'll sure turn out, or 

Oh ! he never misses An out and outer 

To grow eloquent. To be let alone ! 

Tis he may clamber Don't hope to hinder him 

To a lady's chamber, Or to bewilder him, 

Or become a member Sure he's a pilgrim 

Of Parliament. From the Blarney Stone." 

Tlie grounds surrounding the castle are still very beautiful 
although since the time when 

" The muses shed a tear, 
When the cruel auctioneer, 
With his hammer in his hand, to sweet Blarney came,"* 

its beauty has been gradually diminishing ; fine old trees have 
been felled, the statues of 

'•' All heathen gods And Mcodemus, 

And nymphs so fair, All standing naked 

Bold Neptune, Plutarch, In the open air,"! 

have vanished, the 



■ gravel walks there 



For speculation 
And conversation" 

are choked up with rubbish. In 1821, Sir Walter Scott, Mr. 
Lockhart, and Miss Edge worth, visited the castle. 

Blarney LaJce is a sweet piece of water, about a quarter 
of a mile from the castle. A tradition states, that at certain 
seasons a herd of white cows rises from the bosom of the lake 
to graze among the rich pasture which clothes its banks, 
Another story is, that the Earl of Clancarty, who forfeited 
the castle at the Eevolution, cast all his plate into a certain 
part ; that " three of the McCarthy's inherit the secret of the 
place where they are deposited, any one of whom dying com- 
* Father Prout. t MilliMn's Groves of Blarney. 



CORK — FERMOY YOUGHAL. 55 

municates it to another of the family, and thus perpetuates 
the secret, which is never to be revealed until M'Carthy be 
again Lord of Blarney." 

On the river Coman, within the pleasure-grounds, is a 
very fine cromlech, and a number of pillar-stones inscribed 
with ancient Ogham characters. 

" These monolith pillars," writes the accomplished Sterling Coyne, " so 
commonly met with in Ireland, are now generally admitted to be of Pagan 
origin. And as they are frequently to he found* in the neighbourhood of 
those circles of stones which are supposed to have been consecrated to the 
purposes of sun-worship, there is every reason to conclude that they were 
in some way connected with the religious mysteries of the primeval inhabi- 
tants of Ireland, although the precise nature of that religion still remains 
buried in obscurity, in order, it might seem, to give to the antiquarians a 
debateable ground* on which to create numerous fanciful theories." 



FERMOY. 

20 miles from Cork — 17 from Mallow Station — Coach from Cork at 4 p.m. 

FERMOY is about 20 miles to the north -east of Cork, and 
17 miles east from the Mallow Station. As it will not 
be passed in any of the succeeding routes, it will be 
well to notice it here. 

This was an extensive military station, and from being a 
" small town of no note," has assumed an air of considerable 
importance. This metamorphosis is chiefly ascribable to Mr. 
Anderson, the mail-coach and barrack contractor, who made 
Fermoy his head-quarters. 

YOUGHAL. 

28 miles from Cork — Coach at | past 3 a.m. } at 8 a.m., and at 4 p.m. — Abbey. 

YOUGHAL is 28 miles from Cork, and is conveniently 
reached by coach. It lies to the east of the county on the 
River Blackwater, which separates it from the county Water- 
ford. Above Youghal, the Blackwater has its course through 
the last named county. Here a Franciscan abbey was founded 
in 1224 by Maurice Fitzgerald. Archdall gives the tradition, 
that a castle was intended originally by the founder ; that the 
men engaged in the work requested some money to drink 
their employer's health. He desired his son to give it to 
them, who fell upon the men in abusive terms, which so pro- 
voked Maurice, that, to punish the pride of his son, he had the 
structure converted into a monastery. A portion of the church 



56 CORK — KILLAPwXET. 

is still used as a place of worship, but the greater part is 
abandoned to ruin. A monument to the Earl of Cork is in 
the south transept ; he is in a recumbent position, with his 
two wives kneeling, one on each side of him. Figures of his 
nine children are underneath. The church contains many 
interesting tombs, including those of the Boyles and Pitz- 
geralds. At Youghal, Oliver Cromwell embarked for England 
after his campaign in Ireland. During the rebellion of the 
Earl of Desmond, Sir Walter Raleigh sailed to Ireland as 
captain of a few troops sent over to assist the Lord-Deputy. 
For his skill and bravery, he was rewarded with a grant of 
land in the counties Cork and Waterford. He had two resi- 
dences, one at Lisraore, and the other at Youghal. In 1602, 
he sold his property to Boyle, afterwards Earl of Cork. It 
was stated that Boyle overreached Sir Walter in the bargain, 
a charge which does not appear to be well founded. It is 
said that Sir Walter expressed himself satisfied with the 
bargain before many witnesses, affirming that. " if he" (mean- 
ing Boyle) "had not bought my Irish land, it would have 
fallen to the crown, and then one Scot or other would have 
begged it." Youghal is connected with the county Waterford 
bv a Ions: narrow bridge. 



KILLARNEY. 

Presuming that the tourist has already, by means of the 
branch line from Mallow, reached the hallowed region 
of the three lakes, we will present to him a sketch of 
the principal objects in that romantic neighbourhood, 
leaving the different routes from Cork to follow. 

KILLABXEY TOWN. 

Hotels. — Royal. Victoria — Bed 2s. 3 breakfast Is. Sd., dinner 8s.. tea 
Is. 6d., private room 3s. to 5s. Torc-Tieic — Bed Is. Sd., breakfast 
Is. 8d., dinner 2s. 6d., tea Is. 3d., snpper Is. 6(1.,. attendance Is. 
Lake— Bed Is. Sd. ; breakfast Is. 8d., dinner 2s. 6d. 3 tea Is. 3d., sup- 
per Is. 6d., attendance Is. 2d., private rooms 3s. to 5s. Eenmarc 
Amu — Bed Is. 8<L, breakfast Is. Sd., dinner 2s 6d., tea Is. 3d., pri- 
vate rooms 3s. to 5s. Royal Hibernian— Bed Is. 6d.. breakfast Is. 6d. ; 
dinner Is. 8d., tea Is. Hibernian— Bed Is. 6d.. breakfast Is. 3d., 
dinner 2s. 6d., tea Is., snpper Is., attendance Is. 3d. 

Gewekax Tariff foe Cars at Kielaexey. 

One-horse Car. for one or two passengers, 6d. per mile — for three or four 

passengers, 8d. per mile.— Two-horse Car, Is. per mile. 

Poxies, GriDES.. &c. 
Ponies per dav, 3s,: Guides, 2s. 6d. : Guide with bugle, 5s. 



EXCURSIONS FROM KILLARNEY. 



57 



Boats. 

Two-oared Boat, 5s. to 6s. per day.— Pour-oared Boat, 10s. per day. 

Six-oared Boat, £1 : 5s. 

This village is dirty in extreme, and filled with beggars, 
tourers, guides, and other annoyances. It consists of one prin- 
cipal street, with numerous off-shoots. The population is 
above 7000. In position, it is about one mile and a half from 
the north-east margin of Lough Leane. or the Lower Lake. In 
the principal street are situated two of the hotels, the parish 
church, a mean edifice, the market, and a reading-room, open 
to strangers. A place of worship for Methodists is in town ; 
also a nunnery, with a school attached, where 4C0 girls are 
educated. Lord Kenmare. besides providing clothing for thirty 
of the girls, annually contributes a sum of £100 for the susten- 
tation of the school. A dispensary, a fever hospital, and alms- 
house, swell the number of the town charities. The Eoman 
Catholics have erected a magnificent cathedral to the north of 
the town. The design is by Pugin, celebrated for his imita- 
tions of Medieval art. 



MUCKBOSS, or CLOGHEEEEX. 

Hotels.— The Muckross {Roche's)— Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d.. dinner 
2s. 6d. ; tea Is. 3d., attendance Is. 3d. d'SuUkan's — Bed Is. 6d., 
breakfast Is. 6d., dinner 2s. 6d., tea Is. 3d., attendance Is. 

This village is two miles south of Killarney, within a few 
minutes' walk of the ruined church, whose name it now bears, 
and two miles north of the celebrated cascade of Tore. Its 
position is half a mile from the south-east corner of the lower 
lake. The principal buildings in the village are two hotels, 
the post-office, and a school-house. Mr. Herbert is proprietor. 
Many visitors prefer this village to the town of Killarney, 

EXCURSIONS IHOM KILLARNEY to Pass or Dunloe, ajsd the 
Theee Lakes. 

Marked red on Plan. 



Miles. 



Killarnev town. 

Cathedral. 

ITnion YVorkhouse. 

Lunatic Asylum 
Ruins of Agha'doe, . 

Castle. 

Bound Tower. 

Church. 
Asrhadoe Church. 



Aghadoe House.. 
KiUalee Church in ruins. 
Beaufort House. 
Bunloe Castle. . 
Enter Gap of Lninloe, 
Co-Saun Lough, 
Cushvalley Lough. . 
Anger Hangh "and Pike 
, Bock, . " . 



Miles. 

* 3 

if 5, 

1£ 






s 

9" 
101 



* 11 



Cars can proceed no farther. Continue on foot. 



58 



KILLARXEY TO THE LAKES. 



Black Lough, . 

Gap Cottage. 

Perry cuTiihy Waterfall, 



Miles. 

I 11$ ' View or the Black 
| 12 Valley. 

.1 13 | Lord Brandon's Cottage, . 

Proceed thence by boat. 

Miles. I 



Enter Upper Lake, . 

M'Carthy's Island. 

Eagle Island. 

Arbutus Island. 

Newfoundland Bay. 
Enter Long Range, . 

Man-of-War Rock. 

Four Friends. 

Eagle's Xest. 
Enter Middle or Mn.dk- 
ross Lake by Old Weir 
Bridge, 

Pinisli Island. 

Brickeen Island. 



I 151 



If 17 ' 



Enter Lower Lake or 






Lough Leave by Bric- 






keen Bridge. ' . 


i 


19* 


Glena Bay and Wood, 


i 


20 


LyXISEALLEN, . 


5~ 


25 


Binned Abbey. 






Ross Island. 


1 


26 


Castle in Ruins. 






Copper Mines. 






Land at Muckross, . 


fy 


28i 


Muckrcss Abbey, 


1 


29 


Elesk Castle, (to right), . 





31 


Killarney, . . 


3 

i. 


31| 



EXCURSION FROM MUCKROSS, 

To Muckross Abbey, Kehicabi Demesne, axd Toec Cascade. 

Black Dotted Line on JIajj. 

Miles. I Miles. 

Pinish Island, . . . I 3* 
Old Weir Bridge, . \ 4 



Muce^oss Abbey 
Mansion, . 
Brickeen Island, 



3 | Tore Cascade, 



KILLARNEY TO GAP OF DUNLOE, LAKES, &C. 

Leaving the uninviting streets of Killarney town, we 
proceed in a north-western direction, passing the spacious 
Union Work-house and the palace-like County Lunatic Asylum 
on our right, and the beautiful cathedral on our left, we get 
now and then a peep of the larger of the lakes, and two 
and a quarter miles from town pass on our right the venerable 
ruins of 

AGHADOE. Perched on a piece of rising ground, and 
overlooking that immense valley in whose bosom rests the 
majestic Lough Leane, this is one of the most delightfully 
situated ruins in the kingdom. 

The Castle is but a fragment of a tower. Of its founda- 
tion or occupation no records are extant, but the titles given 
by tradition, " the Bishop's chair," and " the pulpit/' would 
seem to indicate that it had been originally the residence of 
the bishop of the diocese. 



AGHADOE HOUSE, ETC, 59 

The CJiurch, writes Windele, " is a low oblong building, 
consisting of two distinct chapels, of unequal antiquity, lying 
east and west of each other ; that to the east is in the pointed 
style, date 1158, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity; the other, 
or western chapel, is of an earlier period, between the sixth 
and twelfth centuries, in the Romanesque style, and was under 
the patronage of St. Finian. These are separated by a solid 
wall, through which had once been a communication, but 
closed up long before the destruction of the building. The 
whole of the church is about eighty feet in length, by twenty 
in breadth." 

The Bound Toioer is in no better condition than the castle, 
Its present height is about 15 feet. "Its masonry is greatly 
superior to that of the church. The stones are large, regular, 
and well dressed. The greater part of the facing stone of the 
north side has been unfortunately taken away for the erection 
of tombs in the adjacent burying-ground. Within and with- 
out, the spoliator has been effectually at work, aided by those 
worst pests, the gold-seekers — fellows, whose unhallowed 
dreams are most fatal to our antiquities." Continuing the 
drive for another mile, we take a sharp turn to the left, passing 
to the right 

AGHADOE HOUSE, the pleasant mansion of Lady Headly. 
After a quarter of a mile's drive in a south-eastern direction, 
we take another sharp turn to the right, and for two miles 
and a half continue due west. To our left, on the lake side, is 
Lake View House, the residence of James 0' Conn ell, Esq., 
brother to the late agitator. On the same side appears Kil- 
lalee House, and on the right the ruins of the church of the 
same name. Scarcely six and a half miles from Killarney we 
pass to our left the beautiful demesne of Beaufort House, 
having first crossed the River Laune, which conveys the sur- 
plus water from the Upper Lake. 

Dunloe Castle, on the left, was originally one of the resi- 
dences of the powerful 0' Sullivan Mor. 

The Cave of Dunloe, situated in a field close by the high 
road, and at no great distance from the entrance to the Gap, 
will tempt the antiquarian tourist. The cave w T as discovered 
in 1838 by some labourers who were making a ditch, when 
they broke into a hollow under the earth. 

" The Cave of Dunloe must be regarded as an ancient Irish library, lately 
disinterred, and restored to light. The books are the large impost stones 
■vyhich form the roof. Their angles contain the writing. A library of such 
literature was never heard of in England before, and scarcely in Ireland; 



60 KILLARNEY TO THE LAKES. 

and yet it is of the highest antiquity."* We have already referred to the 
Ogham character, as that used by the Druids before the introduction of 
Christianity into Ireland. It consists of sixteen letters represented by four 
arrangements of strokes, either upon a line, or, as is more generally the case, 
upon the sharp edge of a stone. We copy the alphabet in this character as 
given by a celebrated Irish scholar, O'Halloran. 



ii in mi inn 


i ii i ii ////// 


in hi mi inn in i 


nun ////// 



b l f s n d t c a o u e i m g r 

The Ogham alphabet now contains twenty-five characters, representing 
letters or combinations of letters. The Beth-Luis-Noin, or Irish alphabet, 
contains but eighteen letters, fashioned differently from the Koman cha- 
racters, and each symbolically representing a tree or plant. 

Thus the letter D, Duir, is the name for the oak ; 0, Oun, 
is the broom ; U, Z7r, is the heath, and I, Idolho, is the yew tree. 
^The cottage said to have been inhabited by the celebrated 
beauty Kate Kearney stands invitingly at the entrance to the 
Gap. It is now inhabited by the reputed granddaughter of 
the heroine, who conveniently bears the same name, although 
not the same charms as her prototype. Goats' milk, seasoned 
with a little potheen, will in all likelihood be offered here, 
and a gratuity received in return. 

THE GAP OF DUNLOE is one of those notable places 
about which there exists so much diversity of opinion. It is 
a wild and narrow mountain pass, between the range of hills 
known as Macgillicuddy's Reeks, and the Purple Mountain, 
which is a shoulder of the Tomies. The entire length of the 
defile is about four miles. The principal feature of the pass 
is the height of the rocks which bound it, compared with the 
narrow tract of road, and the insignificant streamlet which 
courses through it. We will quote the accounts of two dis- 
tinguished writers. " On either hand," writes Sterling Coyne, 
"the craggy cliffs, composed of huge masses of projecting 
rocks, suspend fearfully over the narrow pathway, and at 
every step threaten with destruction the adventurous explorer 
of this desolate scene. In the interstices of these immense 
fragments, a few shrubs and trees shoot out in fantastic shapes, 
which, with the dark ivy and luxuriant heather, contribute to 
the picturesque effect of the landscape. A small but rapid 
stream called the Loe, traverses the whole length of the glen, 
expanding itself at different points into five small lakes, each 
having its proper name, but which are known in the aggregate 
as the Cummeen Tlwmeen Lakes. The road, which is a mere 
* Hall's Hibernia Illustrata. 



THE BLACK VALLEY. 61 

rugged footpath, constructed on the frequent brink of precipices, 
follows the course of the stream, and in two places, crosses it 
by means of bridges. One of these stands at the head of a 
beautiful rapid, where the water rushes in whitening foam 
over the rocky bed of the torrent. The part of the glen which 
attracts most admiration, is that where the valley becomes so 
contracted as scarcely to leave room between the precipitous 
sides for the scanty pathway and its accompanying strand. 
The peasantry have given to this romantic pass the name of 
k the Pike. !;; Mr. Inglis writes in a different strain. '"The 
Gap of Dunloe," says he, " did not seem to me worthy of its 
reputation. It is merely a deep valley, but the rocks which 
flank the valley are neither lofty nor very remarkable in 
their form ; and although, therefore, the Gap presents many 
features of the picturesque, its approaches to sublimity are 
very distant. I was more struck by the view after passing 
the Gap, up what is called the Dark Valley, a wide and desolate 
hollow, surmounted by the finest peaks of this mountain range." 
The road for a little way up the Gap keeps to the right of 
the stream, passing the lowest of the tarns, sometimes called 
Cosaun Lough, which is about nine miles from Killarney. 
Quarter of a mile further on, it crosses the stream below the 
second, or Black Lough, and keeps to the left of Cnshvally 
Lough, and Auger Lough. The Pike Rock is situated at the 
upper end of the latter, being about eleven miles from our 
starting point. 

Cars are never taken beyond this point, from whence the 
tourist may either walk or ride the four miles to Lord 
Brandon's cottage, where he embarks. It would be 
well even to send back the car at the first lake, as the 
road is very trying for the horse. Parties frequent this 
valley with cannon, which they discharge in order to 
awake the magnificent echo, which passes from hill to hill. 

Emerging from the Gap at its upper end, we come within 
sight of 

THE BLACK VALLEY, Coom-a-Dlmv* which stretches 
away to our right, and seems lost in its own profundity. The 
darkness of the valley is not caused by any excess of vegeta- 
tion, which, on the contrary, is very stunted, and sparingly 

* Unfortunately there seems to be no rule among Irish writers for the 
spelling of Irish words. Cummeenduff, Cmnmenduff, Com-a-Bhuv, Coom-Dur, 
and Coom-Dhnvh, are among the different versions given of the Irish name 
of the Dark Valley. We prefer Coom-a-Dhiv, because it comes nearest the 
pronunciation of the natives. 



62 KILLARNEY TO THE LAKES. 

scattered. The effect is produced by the height of the hills 
surrounding the vale, and the immense quantity of dissolved 
peaty matter in the water. We are inclined to concur with 
Mr. Inglis, when he describes this vale as more striking than 
that which we have just left, for few could look into its wild 
recess without a feeling of awe akin to horror. Mr. Windele 
thus describes the valley. " On our right lies the deep, broad, 
desolate glen of Coom-Duv,an amphitheatre buried at the base, 
and hemmed in by vast masses of mountain, whose rugged 
sides are marked by the course of descending streams. At 
the western extremity of the valley, gloomily repose amid 
silence and shadows one of the lakes, or rather circular basins 
of dark still water, Loch-an-bric-dearg, • the lake of the char 
or red trout.' Other lesser lakes dot the surface of the moor, 
and uniting, form at the side opposite the termination of the 
Gap, a fine waterfall of considerable height, enjoying the advan- 
tage not common to other falls in Ireland, of being plentifully 
supplied with water at every season of the year." When we 
catch the first view of the valley on a hot, hazy day, the effect 
is truly magical, reminding us of some of the dioramic repre- 
sentations of the blasted heath in Macbeth. The whole valley 
is a black scarcely defined prison, and the water throws back 
the light which it receives by reflection from the clouds, giving 
the idea of being lighted from below. " Had there been at 
the bottom," writes Kohl, " among the rugged masses of black 
rock, some smoke and flame instead of water, we might have 
imagined we were looking into the entrance to the infernal 
regions." 

THE LAKES OF KILLAKNEY 

Have been so lauded, painted, and engraved, that those 
who have never seen them are apt to form too high an 
estimate of their beauty. That the reader may have the 
opinions of those eminently qualified to judge, we subjoin, 
for his guidance, a few extracts from various tourists of 
note. We will first, however, give an example of what Kohl 
terms " a rare specimen of bombastic nonsense." It is from 
Wakefield, an Irish writer. " Nature," writes he, " here puts 
on the wildest and most terrific attire to astonish the gazing 
spectator, who, lost in wonder and surprise, thinks that he 
treads on enchanted ground ; and whilst he scarcely knows 
to which side to direct his attention, he can hardly believe 
that the scenes before him are not the effect of delusion, or 
the airy phantoms of the brain called into momentary exist- 
ence by the creative power of a fervid imagination." A better 



LAKES OF KILLARNEY. 63 

judge, Sir Walter Scott, is reported, on the authority of 
Miss Edgeworth, to have said that he considered the "Upper 
Lake the grandest sight he had ever seen, except Loch 
Lomond." Another capital authority, Sir David Wilkie, 
wrote thus : — " I have more than once expressed my opinion 
that the county of Kerry, so nobly indented with hays of the 
Atlantic Ocean, and possessing a climate so favourable for 
vegetation, along with its mountains and inland waters, might, 
without injustice, be pronounced, in point of scenery, the 
finest portion of the British islands." Sir E. C. Hoare, in 
his journal, corroborates the opinion of Wilkie. " I have seen 
no spot" writes he, " more adapted for the school of the land- 
scape-painter than Killarney, or where he may study all the 
component parts of a fine picture with greater advantage. The 
rocks that bound the shores of Muckross and the Lower Lake, 
with their harmonious tints and luxuriant decoration of 
foliage, stand unrivalled, both in form and colouring. The 
character of the mountains is as grand and varied as the lakes 
in which they reflect their rugged summits ; and the incon- 
stant state of the climate subjects each to the most sudden 
changes, and produces the most admirable effects of light and 
shade."' We will leave the lakes with a quotation from Arthur 
Young: — "Upon the whole, Killarney. among the lakes that 
I have seen," (of course, he means in Great Britain), "can 
scarcely be said to have a rival. The extent of Loch Erne is 
much greater, the islands more numerous, and some scenes 
near Castle Caldwell of as great magnificence. The rocks at 
Keswick are more sublime, and other lakes may have circum- 
stances in which they are superior ; but when we consider 
the prodigious woods of Killarney, the immensity of the moun- 
tains, the uncommon beauty of the promontory of Muckross 
and the Isle of Innisfallen. the character of the island, the sin- 
gular circumstance of the arbutus, and the uncommon echoes, 
it will appear, upon the whole, to be in reality superior to all 
comparisons." 



' look back once more 



To the blue lake's retiring shore ; 
On its smooth breast the shadows seem 
Like objects in a morning dream, 
What time the slumber er is aware, 
He sleeps, and all the vision's air ; 
Even so on yonder liquid lawn, 
In hues of bright reflection drawn, 
Distinct the shaggy mountains lie, 
The summer's clouds so plain we note, 
That we could count each dappled spot." 

Scott's Bridal of Triermahi. 



64 LAKES OF KILLAE^EY. 

Derrycunihii Waterfall occurs on a stream which m 
the river from the Black Valley. The name is supposed to be 
derived from a remarkable personage who leapt over the 
stream, and left his footmark- print 1 in a stou 
marked stones are common all over Ireland, and have had 
various origins ascribed to them. Spencer concluded that 
they were a sort of sign-manual of the chiefs wh -landing on 
the stone, "received an oath I r all the auncient for- 

mer customs of the country inviolable." The vale of Coom-a- 
dhuv is but the upper end of a larsre valley, stretching from 
ondei the Lofty Carrantuohill 3414 feet), the loftiest mountain 
in Ireland, in a western Erection, until under Mangerton [2751 
and Comaglan . . it widens out into the 

UPPER LAKE, the length jf which is only two and a 

half miles, and breadth three quarters. The area of this lake 
is 430 acres, being little more than a tn bad :: the 

Lower Lake. It contains twelve islands - :M an 

area of about six acres, none of them being muck 
acre in area, and several not even :. rood. 

WCarihys IdomdiA me of the first ^e encounter on en- 
tering: the lake. It is difficult I - nigra : the name 
of this or indeed any other spot in the ge of the lakes with 
certainty, so active have been the imagination- grades and 
boatmen in coining origins and incidents :; ?nit the wants :: 
tourists. I: is an historical (act that the county Kerry a: me 
period was chiefly owned by the fcwc iwerral :'.:ie:s. 0'Snffi 
van and McCarthy, mourn i: is l:ur since the i :~e: :■: ".. :th 
has dwindled into insignificance. It is believed that one :: 
the last McCarthys either dwelt or took refuge on the island. 

Arbutus Island is the largest :u the like, leiur twenty- 
live perches by eleven. In area it is inferior to another called 
Eagle Island, : :t::: one acre and twenty-six perches ^vhile 
the latter is one acre and thirty perches. Here can be no 
doubt of the origin of this island's title, seeing that it is ::n- 
pletely covered with the beantifbJ plan — hose name it bears. 
The islands in the lakes of Cumberland are ritiirt grassy 
holms, with sometimes a piece :: yellow whin U satch thr eye, 
Or perhaps a solitary tree or shrub, or, if larger : _ as St. 
Herbert's ani Lira's Isle en Derwentwater bear shady 
groves of ash and plane trees, mix^a with every other variety 
of English forest tree. The islands :n tire Killamey lakes 
have a totally different aspect, prodnced entirely by the pre- 
sence of the arbutus 'Aviv.: us i ".-vv Tire leaves ere 
even in winter, of a rich rlossv ereen. en;; sc clustered at 



UPPER LAKE 65 

the terminations of the branches, that the waxen flask-like 
flowers, which hang in graceful racemes among them or 
the rich crimson strawberry-like fruit, seem cradled in a 
nest of verdure. The arbutus is never lofty enough to en- 
title it to the rank of a tree ; and its bare trunk and unclothed 
branches require the thicket of unrestricted vegetation to hide 
them. All islands in the lakes have a share of this " Myrtle 
of Killamey." and the road sides in the vicinity are plentifully 
adorned with it. Though small in proportion, the Upper Lake 
is generally admitted to be the finest of the three, not as a 
simple sheet of water, in which the lower far surpasses it, but 
on account of the wild rocky shores which hem it in on every 
side. Although we cannot agree with Mr. Coyne that this 
lake possesses " every variety of landscape that can delight 
the eye or gratify the imagination,'' still in the main we are 
inclined to agree with him in his account of the spot. " The 
wild grandeur/' he writes, " of the Upper Lake strikes the 
observer on first beholding it with feelings of awe and admi- 
ration. Perfectly distinct in the character of its romautic 
scenery from that of the Turk and Lower Lake, it combines 
many of the softer beauties of wood and water, with all the 
stern reality of mountain scenery — possessing in a surpassing 
degree every variety of landscape that can delight the eye or 
gratify the imagination. Embosomed amidst majestic moun- 
tains whose fantastical summits seem to pierce the sky. the 
lake appears to be completely landlocked. On the south lie 
the Derryeunihy mountain ranges, and on the left the lofty 
Eeeks 

1 Lift to the clouds their craggy heads on high, 

Crowned with tiaras fashion'd in the sky, 

In vesture clad of soft ethereal hue. 

The purple mountains rise to distant view, 
"With Dunloe^ Gap. 3 " 

Weld writes of this lake, " The Upper Lake displays much 
greater variety than the others, but that variety arises from 
different combinations of the same wild and uncultivated fea- 
tures. In picturesque scenery, indeed, it far surpasses all the 
other lakes." He very justly adds, that " It is only by a pa- 
tient examination of its shores, and particularly of the deep 
inlets along it, that its full beauties can be discovered." Inglis 
has the same opinion of the pre-eminence of the Upper Lake 
over the other. 

" To my mind," writes he, " the upper lake is the most attractive ; the 
mountains* are nearest to it ; it has not one tame feature, and it is more 
studded with islands than either of the other lakes. I landed upon several 



66 LAKES OF KILLARNEY. 

of them, and was delighted with the luxuriant vegetation ; and, above all, 
with the arbutus, which is here a great tree, and whose fresh tints contrast 
so well with the gray rocks among which it grows." 

Towards the eastern end the lake becomes attenuated into 
a narrow strip of water rather more than half a mile long, called 
Newfoundland Bay, and to the north of it passes the Long 
Range, a river little more than two miles in length connecting 
the Upper with the Middle Lake. Every little rock or islet has 
its peculiar name or legend, which the boatmen are eager to 
recite for the edification of the tourist. On entering the Long 
Eange, we pass Colman's Eye, the Man-of-\Var, a mass of rock 
resembling, though remotely, the hulk of a vessel, and the 
Four Friends, a series of little isles. 

The Eagles Nest rears its pyramidal head 1000 feet above 
the river. It is a rugged, precipitous mass of rock, in whose 
interstices the lordly eagle builds its eyry. The base is tole- 
rably covered with trees, shrubs, and underwood, but towards 
the upper part it is destitute of covering, save from a few 
stunted trees which find nourishment among the crevices, or 
the heath and other lowly sub-alpine plants which clothe it. 

" The people of the country," Kohl informs us, " contrive to rob the poor 
birds every year of their young, and sell them to this or that nobleman, who 
generally pays four or five poimds for the stolen goods. In the space of two 
or three miles, we were told, there were known to be five eagles' nests. A 
regular trade is carried on in the young birds who are sent to England. 
Between the 15th of June and the 1st of July, they are old enough to be 
brought up by the hand, and this, therefore, is the time when the robberies 
begin. The rocks on which the nests are built are usually so steep and 
dangerous, that they can only be reached by ropes from above. The people 
watch for the departure of the old birds, who fly away at regular hours in 
search of food. The men are then let down in baskets, to deprive the 
feathery parents of their tender care. It happens sometimes, however, that 
the business is not accomplished before the birds return, and then a despe- 
rate conflict takes place with the spoilers, who are provided for such a con- 
tingency with an old sabre or a pistol." 

It is perhaps as well that the breed of birds so dangerous as the Golden 
Eagle is kept within due limits, as many instances are recorded of their 
preying not only upon fowls, lambs, and other stock, but even upon helpless 
infancy. Maxwell, in his interesting work, " The Wild Sports of the West," 
gives an anecdote of an eagle, which we are inclined to refer not to the 
golden eagle, but to the erne or white-tailed eagle, a bird of nearly equal 
size, but less particular in its choice. " A herdsman," he writes, " on a very 
sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle 
posted on a bank that overhung the pool ; presently the bird stooped and 
seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued. When the herd reached 
the spot, he found the eagle pulled under the water by the strength of the 
fish, and the calmness of the day, joined to his drenched plumage, rendered 
him unable to extricate himself. With a stone the peasant broke the eagle's 
pinion, and actually secured the spoiler and his victim, for he found the 
salmon dying in his grasp." 



UPPER LAKE. 67 

The echo produced by this and the surrounding rocks. 
\Veld is quite enthusiastic about. 

" To enjoy the echoes to the utmost," he says. K a number of musicians 
should he placed on the hanks of the river, about fifty yards below the face 
of the cliff, while the auditors excluded from their view, seat themselves at 
the opposite bank above the cliff behind a small rocky projection. The 
primary notes are quite lost; while those reverberated" meet the ear, in- 
creased in strength, brilliancy, and sweetness; sometimes multitudes of 
musicians seem playing upon instruments formed for more than mortal use, 
concealed in the caverns or belrind the trees in different parts of the cliff. 
"Whilst the auditor still remains in breathless admiration, it is usual to dis- 
charge a cannon from the promontory opposite the cliff, which never fails to 
startle and stun the ear, ill-prepared as it must be for the shock, after 
dwelling upon the sweet melody which has preceded it." 

Even Inglis. who is usually so nicely just in his estimation 
of much lauded scenes and resorts, speaks in high terms of 
the echo of the Eagle's Nest. 

(; There is/' says he, * certainly something bordering on the sublime in 
the repeated echoes of the mountains, even when these are awoke, not by 
the deep-mouthed thunder, but by the sonorous bugle. The hills seem 
alike to call to each other : and although it would have puzzled Burke to 
trace the emotion of sublimity to terror, it may be traced to its truer origin 
— power ; for when we hear the call repeated and answered from mountain 
to mountain, sometimes loud and without interval, and then fainter and 
fainter, and after a sudden pause again arising as if from some distant glen, 
our imagination endues the mountains with life, and to their attributes of 
magnitude, and silence, and solitude, we for a moment add the power of 
listening and a voice. 1 ' 

The echo is repeated for full a dozen times, and "when pro- 
duced by a cannon is well calculated to startle the hearer, and 
realize in his mind, though faintly, the idea of an Alpine 
thunder-storm, such as that depicted by Byron, 

" Tar along 

Trom peak to peak, the rattling crags among, 
Leaps the live thunder ! Xot from one lone cloud. 
But every mountain now hath found a tongue, 
And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, 
Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud." 

Passing objects of minor interest, we at length gain the 
spot known as the " Meeting of Waters/' where the Long 
Range, calling as it were, at the corner of the Middle Lake, 
skirts round the west of Dinish Island, which is bounded on 
the west by the Middle, and on the north by the Lower Lake. 

Old Weir Bridge is an antiquated structure, consisting 
of two arches, through which the water rushes with uncon- 
trollable force. The boatmen, who are generally very skilful 
rowers, do nothing but guide the boat, and it dashes through, 
under one of the arches into 



68 LAKES OF KILLAEXET. 

MUCKROSS, TORC, OE MIDDLE LAKE. This lake 
contains an area of 680 acres. The principal islands are 
Dinish and Brickeen, which separate it from the Lower and 
larger lake. There are three passages between these two 
lakes, one round the eastern side of Brickeen, another between 
Brickeen and Dinish Islands, and a third by the Long Range to 
the west side of the latter. 

Brickeen Island contains about nineteen acres, and is well 
wooded. It seems a continuation of the peninsula of Muckross, 
from which a narrow stream separates it. 

Dinish Island, which is also well wooded, contains about 
thirty-four acres. On it is built a neat cottage, where, by 
previous arrangement with the hotel keeper, dinner may be 
in waiting for the tourist. 

The visitor who does not purpose seeing "Killarney in 
one day," will leave the cascade on Tore Mountain for 
another excursion, and pass through between the two 
islands into the Lower Lake. 

Of the beauty of Tore Lake much has been written, but 
that it is inferior to the smaller, or Upper, and superior to the 
Lower or larger lake, is generally conceded. The admired 
author of "the Irish Sketch-book,"* thus refers to the varied 
attractions of the spot. " What is to be said about Tore 
Lake ? When there we agreed that it was more beautiful than 
the large lake, of which it is not one-fourth the size ; then, 
when we came back, we said, ' Xo, the large lake is the most 
beautiful;' and so, at every point we stopped at, we deter- 
mined that that particular spot was the prettiest in the whole 
lake. The fact is, and I don't care to own it, they are too 
handsome. As for a man coming from his desk in London or 
Dublin, and seeing ' the whole lakes in a day,' he is an ass 
for his pains. A child doing a sum in addition might as well 
read the whole multiplication table, and fancy he had it by 
heart. We should look at these things leisurely and thought- 
fully ; and even then, blessed is he v:ho understands them ." 

LOUGH LEAXE, OR THE LOWER LAKE, is now 

entered by passing under Brickeen Bridge. Its area is given 
at about 5000 acres, its greatest length being five, and breadth 
three miles. The islands upon this lake are upwards of thirty 
in number, but very few of them exceed an area of one acre, 
while the majority come far short of that size. The largest 
islands are Rabbit Island, a little above twelve acres, and 
* Tliackerav 



LOUGH LEASE. bd 

Innisfallen. with an area of rather more than twenty- one 
acres. The names of the islands are derived, either from 
some fancied resemblance to animate or inanimate objects, or 
from being the resort of different animals. Thus we have Lamb 
Island, Elephant Island Gun Bocks. 0*Donahue ; s Horse. Crow 
Island Heron Island. G-annet Bocks. Otter Island, and Stag 
Island. The chief beauty of the Lower Lake consists in its 
wide placid surface, and the mountains which form its barriers 
on the south and west. To the north-east the ground is level 
and uninteresting, save for the planting on the demesnes of 
Keumare and Muekross. which, while they lend a beauty of 
their own. want the wild grandeur of the craggy mountains 
which surround the Upper Lake. Innumerable nooks of sur- 
passing beauty, however, do occur in the frequent bays and 
inlets which interrupt its margin, and even the bare rocky 
islets contrast amazingly with the verdure of the distant shores, 
the richly clothed islands of Innisfallen and Boss, and the mirror- 
like surface of the lake whose bosom they disturb. This lake, 
though it cannot boast the magic halo thrown around Loch 
Katrine by the more than poetry of Sir Walter Scott, is not 
without its legendary interest. The legend of the great 
O'Donaghue. the tales of the M'Carthys. and a world of other 
matter in the hands of another border minstrel, would supply 
materials for poetry such as few countries can boast. One 
legend of O'Donaghue. from its beauty, and the general cre- 
dence which it receives in the country, is perhaps worthy of 
record. 

•'■' His castle." writes Kohl '■' lies in ruins, but the fame of Ms deeds still 
lives in the memories of the people ; and in the fantastic variety of forms 
assumed by the rocks and crags, they fancy they can find traces of his 
domestic life. 15 "On a fine morning, 5 '" continues the same writer, "before 
the first rays of the sun have begunto scatter the night fogs from the bosom 
of the lake' O'Donaghue himself I was told, comes riding over it on a beauti- 
ful snow-white horse, to look after his household business, while fames 
hover before him, and strew his path with flowers. As he approaches, 
every thing returns to its former state of magnificence, and his castle, his 
library, his prison, and his pigeon-house, are restored to a peifect state. 
"Whoever has courage to follow him over the lake, can cross even the 
deepest parts dry-shod, and may ride with him into the opposite mountains, 
where his treasures are concealed, and from which, in such a case, the 
daring visitor may expect a liberal present, but before the sun has arisen, 
O'Donaghue again crosses the water, and vanishes amidst the ruins of his 
castle. 5 ' 

The character of this now spectral chief is said to have 
been just and honourable, clearly distinguishing h im from 
another of the same name, who bore the distinctive appel- 
lation of " O'Donaghue of the Glens." The latter was "bloody 
and tvrannous." 



I 



70 LAKES OF KILLARNEY. 

GLENA BAY is the part of the Lower Leake first entered, 
and the quiet heauty which surrounds it, coupled with the 
sheet of water beyond, which seems to melt into the horizon, 
give a favourable impression of the lake. A picturesque little 
cottage known as Lady Kenmare's, stands on the shore. The 
range of hills, which for fully two miles bounds the south-west 
side of the lake, takes the name of Glena ; it is well wooded, 
and the haunt of the red deer, now scarce, even in Scotland, 
and all but extinct in England. * Stag hunts used to be of 
frequent occurrence among the lakes, and many a good fat 
buck has been slain, and eaten by the Irish chiefs ; now how- 
ever, it is customary to capture the animal in the water, and 
afterwards allow it to escape. From Mr. Weld we extract a 
few notes relative to this sport. 

" On the day preceding the hunt, those preparations are made which 
are thought best calculated to ensure a happy issue. An experienced per- 
son is sent up the mountain to search for the herd, and watch its motions 
in patient silence till night comes on." The deer which remains aloof from 
the herd is selected for the next day's sport, " The deer, upon being roused, 
generally endeavours to gain the summit of the mountain, that he may the 
more readily make his escape across the open heath to some distant retreat. 
To prevent this, numbers of people are stationed at intervals along the 
heights, who by loud shouting terrify the animal, and drive him towards the 
lake. I was once gratified by seeing a deer run for nearly a mile along the 
shore, with the hounds pursuing him in full cry. On finding himself closely 
pressed, he leaped boldly from a rock into the lake, and swam towards one 
of the islands ; but, terrified by the approach of the boats, he returned, and 
once more sought for safety on the main shore. Soon afterwards, in a 
desperate effort to leap across a chasm between two rocks, his strength 
failed him, and he fell exhausted to the bottom. It was most interesting to 
behold the numerous spectators who hastened to the spot. Ladies, gentle- 
men, peasants, hunters, combined in various groups around the noble victim 
as he lay extended in the depth of the forest, The stag, as is usual on such 
occasions, was preserved from death." 

Following the line on the chart, we pass one or two little 
islets and rocks on our way to " Sweet Innisfallen," but if 
time permits, it would be well to keep the course of the shore 
to 

O'SULLIVAN'S CASCADE. Landing in a little bay at 
the foot of the Tomies, and following a rugged pathway through 
the thick forest, we hear from time to time the dashing of the 
water down its precipitous channel, until we at last reach the 
waterfall. " The cascade," writes Wright, " consists of three 
distinct falls ; the uppermost, passing over a ridge of rock, 
falls about twenty feet perpendicularly into a natural basin 
beneath, then making its way between two hanging rocks, the 

* The red deer is occasionally, though rarely, seen in Martindale on the 
west side of Llleswater, 



INNISF ALLEN ISLAND. 71 

torrent hastens down a second precipice, into a similar recep- 
tacle, from which second depository, concealed from the view, 
it rolls over into the lowest chamber of the fall. Beneath a 
projecting rock, overhanging the lowest basin, is a grotto, 
with a seat rudely cut in the rock. From this little grotto 
the view of the cascade is peculiarly beautiful and interesting. 
It appears a continued flight of three unequally elevated 
foamy stages. The recess is encompassed by rocks, and over- 
shadowed by an arch of foliage, so thick as to interrupt the 
admission of light." 

INNISFALLEN ISLAND is but about halfway between 
the east and west shores of the lake. It is interesting not less 
on account of the historical associations connected with it, 
than the charm thrown around it by the poetry of Moore. The 
abbey, whose ruins are scattered about the island, is believed 
to have been founded in 600 by St. Finian, to whom the 
cathedral of Aghadoe was dedicated. 

"Viewed from the shore," writes Coyne, " Innisfallen appeared to be 
covered with an impervious wood; but after penetrating the leafy screen 
which fringes the shore, I found the interior of the island spread out into 
beautiful glades and lawns, embellished by thickets of flowering shrubs and 
clumps of magnificent trees, amongst which the boasted arbutus, with its 
dark shining leaves, stood conspicuously distinct." Of the beauty of the 
vegetation, Kohl was quite enamoured. " Many of the trees," he says, " are 
oaks, but the greater number are magnificent old ash trees, and I also saw 
here a holly tree, older and larger than any I had ever seen in my life. It was 
twelve feet in circumference, and had gigantic far-spreading branches like 
an oak. I could not help comparing it mentally with the little, wretched, 
stunted hollies that drag out a sickly existence in the Jardin des Plantes in 
Paris, where every care is taken of them." 

In the abbey were composed the celebrated " Annals of 
Innisfallen." The work contains scraps from the Old Testa- 
ment, a compendious, though not by any means valuable 
universal history, down to the period of St. Patrick, with a 
more perfect continuation of Irish history to the beginning of 
the fourteenth century. 

The original copy, written from 500 to 600 years ago, is now preserved 
in the Bodleian Library. The publication of this valuable work has been 
attempted at various times, but a complete translation has not yet issued 
from the press. " In the history of Munster particularly," writes Windele, 
" these annals are of the highest authority. The facts are narrated in the 
smallest compass, presenting a dry but sad succession of crimes, wars, and 
rebellions. The lists of abbots, princes, and clergy are useful, but meagre. 
But particular care has been observed in recording the dissensions and 
deaths of the kings of Kerry." 

Seward informs us that the annals assert that— 



72 LAKE? OF KILLARVEY. 

" In 1180, the abbey, which had at that time all the gold and silver, and 
richest goods of the whole country deposited in it. as tat weakest 

security, was plundered by Mildwin. son of Daniel O'Donoghoe. as was also 
the church of Ardfert. and many persons were slain in the very eerie: -ry 
by the M'Cartys." We now take leave of the island with Moore's sweet 
lines: — 

u Sweet Innisf alien, fare thee well, 

May calm and snnshine long be thine. 
How fair thon art. let others tell. 
While bnt to feel how fair be mine. 

S^eet Innisfallen. long shall dwell 
In memory's dream that sunny smile. 

Which o'er thee on that evening fell, 
When first I saw thy fairy uk 

EOSS ISLAND is a. conspicuous object on the eastern 
shore of the lake. It is not. properly, however, an island 
a peninsula, though at high water it is difficult to reach it 
from the shore without having recourse to the a Hie 

peninsula is well planted and intersected with beautiful walks. 
On the southern point we come upon a copper mine opened in 
1804 by Colonel Hall, father of the admired S. C. Hall. The 
position was very unfavourable, being close to the margin of 
the lake ; but notwithstanding this, the labour proceeded and 
was rewarded for a time by an abundance of rich ore. C 
ton Croker asserts that. '• during the four years that Eoss mine 
was worked, nearly £8 worth of ore was disp; 

Swansea, some cargoes producing £40 per ton.' 5 

™ But this very richness," he adds, " was the ultimate cause of its destruc- 
tion, as several small veins of pure oxide of copper split off from the main 
lode, and ran towards the surface. The ore of these veins was much more 
valuable than the other, consequently the miners (who were paid by Ehe 
quality as well as quantity) pursued tlie smaller veins so near the surface, 
that the water broke through into the mine in such an overwhelming de gi e e 
that an engine of thirty-horse power could make no sensible ingHeaaai m 
the inundation." 

There can be no doubt that these mines had been i 
at an early period, whether by the Danes or not it is difficult 
to say. Colonel Hall's miners found several rude stone ham- 
mers of a very early make, besides other unequivocal proofs of 
the pre-occupation of the mines. 

Boss Castle is a conspicuous object from some positions on 
the lake, but is generally visited from land. From the summit 
is obtained a most delightful view. Admission is to be had by 
applying at the cottage close by : a small gratuity is tx: e 
The castle was built by one of the O'Donaghues. In 1652 it 
held out against the English, and was actually the last :: sur- 
render in Munster. On the 26th July. Lord Bfbakeny had 



MUCKROSS ABBEY." 1 73 

been defeated in the county Cork and many of his followers 
slain, among whom was a chief Macgillieuddy. who held com- 
mission of colonel. Retreating to Ross Castle, he held out 
against the repeated attacks of General Ludlow, and not until 
''ships of war" were seen upon the lake did the garrison give 
in. An old prophecy had declared Eoss impregnable till ships 
should surround it ; and the Irish soldiers, looking upon the 
prophecy as accomplished, would not strike a blow. Ludlow 
in his memoirs thus narrates the incident : — 

"TVheii we had received our "boats, each of which was capable of con- 
taining 120 men, I ordered one of them to be rowed about the water, in 
order to find out the most convenient place for landing upon the enemy ; 
which they perceiving thought fit., by a timely submission, to prevent the 
danger tha't threatened them." After the surrender 5000 of the Minister 
men laid down their arms. Lord Broghill. who accompanied Ludlow, had 
granted to him u £1000 yearly out of the estates of Lord Muskerry." 

The castle is now in ruins, but occupies a situation which, 
added to its ivy clad walls, give it an interesting and even ro- 
mantic character. 

If Muckross be the evening destination of the tourist, or if 
he desires in the same day to visit the abbey, he would 
do well to pull to the south-west corner of the lake, and 
there land. The boatmen will in all probability object 
to the length of this journey, being in all about thirteen 
miles, besides the distance they have had to row the 
empty boat to meet the tourist at Brandon's cottage ; 
but the sail is not more than he has a right to expect. 
As Muckross will be more properly visited in the walk- 
ing excursion which we have planned, we will leave it 
at present, and merely observe that the walk between 
the landing and Killarney is about three miles and a half. 
The dotted line in the Upper Lake is intended to shew 
the branch to Tore for the benefit of those who have 
only one day. The entire day's excursion is nearly 
thirty-two miles : for the first eleven we can drive, 
then walk or ride four, sail about thirteen, and walk 
three and a half. 



KILLARNEY TO MUCKROSS ABBEY, TORC, &C. 

^ THE ABBEY OF MUCKROSS is situated on the demesne 
of Mr. Herbert, M.P. By a neat lodge gate, the visitor is 
freely admitted into the grounds of Muckross, and passing 
down a walk in the direction of the lake, he suddenly observes 



74 KILLARNEY TO MUCKROSS, TORC, ETC. 

to his right, on a little knoll surrounded by trees among which 
the yew is conspicuous, the ruins of the far-famed abbey. It 
was founded in 1440, and rebuilt in 1602. The ruin consists 
of an abbey and church. The cloisters belonging to the 
former are in the form of a sombre piazza surrounding a dark 
court-yard, rendered still more gloomy by the presence in its 
centre of a magnificent yew tree. The different offices con- 
nected with the abbey are still in a state of tolerable preserva- 
tion. The large fire-place of the kitchen was taken possession 
of by a hermit of the name of John Drake about a hundred 
years ago. He lived here for eleven years, and from his so- 
lemn but cheerful aspect, his seclusion and piety, excited the 
interest of the inhabitants, who yet rehearse with many addi- 
tions the narrative of his sojourn. In the church are many 
tombs, bearing such illustrious names as O'Sullivan and 
M'Carthy. The tomb containing the remains of the descen- 
dants of M'Carthy Mor and O'Donaghue Mor is modern, and 
has a beautifully written epitaph upon it. No gratuity is 
allowed to be solicited by attendants. 

MUCKKOSS ABBEY MANSION is the seat of H. A. 
Herbert, Esq., M.P. for the county. The mansion was built 
from a design by Mr. Burn of London. It is new, and a fine 
example of the Elizabethan style. From various points in the 
demesne, good views of the lake and surrounding scenery are 
obtained, which to particularise would but lessen the pleasure 
of seeing. By a good road we make the circuit of the domain 
and the islands Brickeen and Dinish, and join the high road 
about a mile from Tore Cottage. In hidden watery nooks 
among these woods, covered by shrubs, large ferns, and moss, 
grow isolated patches of that botanical treasure the Triclio- 
manes speciosum. Glena is said to be another station for it ; 
but without the assistance of a guide to point out the habitats 
it is almost in vain to search for it. Its miniature, the 
Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense grows in vast luxuriance on 
every rock moistened by the spray of a waterfall or the 
trickling of all but imperceptible streams. Nowhere is the 
latter more abundant than at the reputed station of the 
Trichomanes. 

TORC CASCADE.— The visitor is admitted by a little 
gate, and may give, or not, a small gratuity to the person who 
acts as porter. The gravel walk leads up a valley lined with 
larch on the one side, and holly, birch, oak, alder, and arbu- 
tus on the other. The stream all the while is heard roaring 



TORC CASCADE — ASCENT OF ilANGERTOX. <0 

down its channel on our right ; a rough wooden seat is gained, 
and the cascade bursts suddenly upon the view. It comes 
over a broken wall of rock, foriniDg numerous cascades in its 
progress, but, from the nature of the rock, has less of the 

6 Falling, and brawling, and sprawling, 



And driving, and riving, and striving" 

characteristic of Lowdore fall, which in appearance, though 
not in magnitude, it somewhat resembles, while the water is 
not sufficiently connected to afford even a distant resemblance 
to Corra Linn. On each side rise precipitous rocks, covered 
with luxuriant trees and ferns. To the left a circuitous foot- 
path leads to a spot from whence is obtained a view of the 
Middle and Lower Lakes, with the peculiar peninsula of wooded 
rock which separates them. The Tore mountain rises close at 
hand on the left ; beyond the Middle Lake, Glena appears, and 
the faint line of the Dingle hills forms the distance to the 
right. In the immediate foreground is the demesne and 
mansion of Muckross. The walk conducts still higher to a 
spot where the cascade is far under the observer's feet, and 
here the view is even finer than that from the lower station. 
The view from Tore cascade should never be omitted, for it 
is certainly one of the finest in Ireland. Mr. Coyne writes of 
the cascade : — 

"The waters are precipitated in a sheet of white foam over a projection 
of the mountain, for a height of sixty or seventy feet. After breaking on 
the rocks in mist and spray, the torrent resumes its impetuous course 
through a deep narrow ravine, amidst young plantations, and tastefully ar- 
ranged pleasure grounds." 

THE ASCEXT OF MANGEKTON. 

Lentil lately, Mangerton was considered the highest moun- 
tain in Ireland. It has been decided, however, by subsequent 
survey, that Carrantual is 658 feet higher, their respective 
heights being 2756 and 3414. The distance between Muck- 
ross and the summit is five miles. The whole journey may 
be performed on ponies. The views from the various points are 
very fine, embracing an extent of scenery which gradually 
expands as we ascend. Four miles from Muckross we come 
to the Devil's Punch-Bowl, a tarn 2206 feet above the level 
of the sea, and more than a thousand above the lakes. It 
occupies a long oval basin, about twenty-eight acres area. 
On every side but one the tarn is surrounded with beetling 
cliffs. C. J. Fox is said to have swam round the tarn in 1772. 
The summit is next gained, and, provided the weather per- 
mits, a most magnificent view is obtained. 



76 KILLARNEY TO THE REEKS. 

It is usual to return by the same route. Many, however, 

will prefer to turn off (under the direction of a guide) 

to Glenacuppal, or the Glen of the Horse, lying between 

Mangerton and Stoompa. 

In its bosom are three lakes or rather tarns, and the scenery 

is wild and beautiful. 

Lough Guitane is a good fishing lake, but the scenery 
around it has nothing in common with the Killarney Lakes. 

ASCENT OF THE REEKS. 

The distance from Killarney to the summit is fifteen 
miles. The ascent is steep, and in some places diffi- 
cult. Many routes are proposed, but these will depend 
on the position from which the tourist starts as well as 
his inclination. As the services of a guide may be 
secured for half-a-crown, it will be well to employ one. 
The descent is sometimes made by the valley of Coom- 
a-dhuv, and thence, the journey be continued to Kil- 
larney by the lakes or road, as the tourist may please. 

Mr. Curwen in his " Observations on the state of Ireland" 
thus characterizes the Reeks : — " Figure to yourself the 
towering mass rising almost perpendicular from its base to 
an elevation of 3414 feet, overshadowing the translucent 
waters of the lake. Such is the height of Macgilly cuddy's 
Reeks, the most elevated mountain in Ireland, whose summit 
is so indented, as to render it difficult on which point to 
fix as that most entitled to pre-eminence. This mountain 
is accompanied by many others, little inferior in loftiness 
and magnitude. One vast uninterrupted expanse of purple 
heath overspreads the upper regions, while the shores of the 
lake are luxuriantly fringed with the arbutus and other trees. 

CORK TO KILLARNEY. 

First Route. 

Rail to Bandon, 20 miles. Day Coach to Bantry — 37-57 miles—Fare 
4s. and 6s. Glengariff by Hired Car, or Day Car in Season — 
14-71 miles. Kenmare by Day Car — 21-82 miles. * Mucross — 15-97 
miles. Killarnef by Mail-Car from Kenmare — Fare 2s. 6d., 99 Miles. 

The ride between Cork and Bandon is twenty miles in 
length. It passes first over a deep and wide valley, and then 
alternately through cuttings in sand or rock, again emerging 
into daylight, and running level with rich pastures on either 
side. 



B ANDO X — B ANTE Y , 7 7 



BAXDOX. 

Hotel. — Devonshire Arms — Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d., dinner 2s,, 
tea Is., supper Is. — Fares to Bandon 3s., 2s., and Is. 4d. 

This town stands on the forfeited property of the chief 
O'Mahony, who had joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Des- 
mond. Richard Boyle, afterwards Earl of Cork purchased in 
1602 the greater part of O'Mahony' s property, and in 1608 
commenced building a town on the banks of the river Bandon. 
It was carefully fortified, but owing to the inhabitants rising 
in behalf of James, the walls were removed. The amount of 
good done by the first Earl of Cork to the surrounding coun- 
try was very great, yet his zealous and persecuting spirit ren- 
dered him as much an object of fear as love. 

So strict were his Protestant ideas, that in a letter to Secretary Cook, 
he boasts that " No Popish recusant, or unconforming novelist is admitted 
to live in the town at all; " and so bitter were his feelings against the natives, 
that, after detailing in a letter the victory obtained by his son over a few 
insurgents, he concludes : — " And now the boy has blooded himself upon them, 
I hope that God will so bless him and His'Majesty's forces, that, as I now 
write but of killing an hundred, I shall shortly write of killing of thousands/' 5 

In keeping with the principles of the Earl, was the illiberal, 
and even ridiculous inscription placed over the principal gate, 

" Jew, Turk, or Atheist. 
May enter here, 
But not a Papist." 

The town is happily now more liberal in its views, and the 
obnoxious inscription has disappeared. From Bandon to 
Bantry, we have the day coach, and a pleasant drive it is. 
We pass through the little town of Dunmanway, and a few 
little hamlets of no consequence ; on the way, too, are a few 
gentlemen's seats. 

BANTRY. 

Hotels.— Bantry Arms — Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d., dinner Is. 8d. to 
2s. 6d., tea Is. 3d., supper Is. to Is. 6d., attendance Is., private 
room 3s. Imperial — Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d., dinner 2s. 
Murphy's — Bed Is., breakfast Is. 3d., dinner Is. 8cL, tea Is. 

As a town this place deserves little notice, but from its 
position as a stage to the lakes it is frequently visited. 
The bay is one of its chief features. Various views are 
obtained of it from hills and rising ground on its shore, and 
a boy will lead the way to any of these stations for a few 
coppers. The town depends upon fishing in winter, and 
tourists in summer. It was here that the " aids from France'' 



78 GIXMGASXFT. 

were to have landed. ''The fleet original. dated of 

twenty-five ships of the line, bnt they had been scattered and 
dispersed by violent stomis. and when the remnant of this 
proud armament reached the Irish coast, the - and 

jealousy which existed amongst the leaden ition 

prevented them taking advantage of the opportunity that 
offered, of landing the troops without opposition."* Had the 
French landed. Ireland must have changed hands. It is usual 
to continue by day car to Glengariff and thence to Kenmare. 
but some may prefer the walk over Priest-leap dire 

Unless the tourist have a considerable amoun: >f pc 
ranee, and can subsist on the : nl ate -f his knap 
this route should not be attempted. For the entire 
distance, which is called -~ ~ en. but more nearly 
resembles twenty miles, not a public house 
meanest description is to be met with : the road is 
certainly not bad for such a coun: ring nearly 

two thousand feet above the sea. is at times rati 
and toilsome. The route is not « 
however, to the tourist who delights in long wild ram- 
bles. A boy at Bantry. " Johnny Holmes." is a most 
agreeable and attentive little guide over the mountain. 

There are two routes to Glengariff either by land or water. 
The latter plan should invariably be pursued if time will allow 
of it. as by that means the wild scenery of the bay will be 
viewed to great advantage. 

GLENGARIFF 

Hotels. — Royal — Bed Is. 8d. : breakfast Is. ^d., dinner 2s. 6d.. tea la I L, 
attendance Is. 3d. Bantry Amis — Bed Is. 6d. 5 breakfast Is. 8<L, 
dinner 2s. 6d. to 3s., tea Is 3d. to Is. Gd., supper ls. } attendance 
Is. 3d., private room 2s. 6d. to 3s. 

Is a mountain glen, about three miles in length, and seldom 
more than a quarter of a mile in breadth : the : eka i re w3 
and rugged in the extreme, but richly clothed with yew. holly, 
and arbutus. '* The wildness of the glen scenery is happily 
and effectively contrasted with the cultivation and ar: i c - 
played in the beautiful grounds of Glengariff Castle, which 
is the point generally chosen by artists from which to make 
their sketches of the mountain valley. The most extensive 
view of the glen is obtained from the steep of Old i 
road, near Cromwell's Bridge, from whence the speetatof be- 
* Sterling Covne. 



KENMARE. 79 

holds the dark woods, hills, and rushing streams of Glengarift" 
the lofty mountains of Berehayen, the hold shores of Bantry 
Bay, and, afar off, the line of ocean, bounding all with its 
dark blue cincture."* 

KENMARE. 

Hotels. — Lansdotone Arms — Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d., dinner 2s., 
tea Is., supper Is. 6d. Wellington — Bed Is. 6d., breakfast Is. 6d., 
dinner Is. 8d. to 2s., tea Is., attendance Is. 

This forms a pleasant ride from GlengarifT, and is usually 
the halfway station between it and Killarney. The town 
is small, and even dilapidated, but the air is good and healthy, 
and the bay delightful. There are two hotels. The Wellington, 
newly opened, is a clean and English-looking house, and 
the charges are moderate. A mail-car passes to and from 
Killarney every day, and a pleasant drive it is, although wild. 
Every mile gives a new feature of scenery finer than the first, 
until suddenly on the left the far-famed Lakes of Killarney 
burst on the view. 

Second Eoute. 

Miles. I Miles. 

Bandon, by rail, . . 90 Thence by Glengariff and 

Clonakilty* by day coach, 12£ 32| ; Kenm'are, . . 52 124 

Bosscarberry. hired car), 8j 41 Or over Priest Leap to 
Skibbereen, '(hired car), . 12| 53% j Kenmare, ... 17 

Bantry, by day coach, . 18? 72 | 

The preceding route embraces all the finer scenery of the 
district, with the exception of Gougane Barra, and has the 
advantage of being shorter than the present by above forty 
miles. To such, however, as desire to see every feature of the 
country, the drive by the coast towns of Clonakilty and Skib- 
bereen may be enjoyed. From the latter a day coach conveys 
the passenger to Bantry. 

Third Route. 





Miles. 1 


Miles. 


Macroom, by day coach, 


18 Glengariff, (hired car), 


. 20 53 


Gougaxe Baelra, (hired 


Kenmare, by day car. 


. 21 74 


car), . 


15 33 Killarney, by mail-car, 


. 17 91 


Pass of Eamaneigh. 


I 





The tourist who will consent to return to Cork by road, 
and thence to Dublin by rail, instead of taking train imme- 
diately from Killarney, would do well to select the first and 
* Sterling Covne. 



80 CORK TO KILLARNEY. 

third routes, proceeding to Killarney by the one, and return- 
ing to Cork by the other. A coach leaves Cork every day for 
the wild neighbourhood of Macroom. 

Macroom is a market-town of some size. Its ancient name 
was Maigh cruim, signifying the plain of Crom, who was a 
heathen deity. The Bards, the second order of Druids, held 
their meetings here, even after the introduction of Chris- 
tianity. The castle, ascribed to King John, is an old baronial 
structure. 

GOUGANE BARRA, the wild home of the saintly founder 
of Cork, is a solitary mountain lake, formed by the expansion 
of the river Lea near its source. The lake is properly called 
Lough Allua; it covers an area of 250 acres, and is picturesquely 
dotted with little rocky islets. On three sides of the lake rise 
high and precipitous rocks. The island on which lived the 
pious St. Fionn Bar, is connected with the shore by a rude 
artificial causeway, and hence the name Gougane Barra, 
which literally signifies the " Causeway of Barra." The well is 
supposed to possess peculiar virtues, and a pilgrimage is made 
to it twice every year. The scenes enacted at these patrons 
are often of too gross a nature to be tolerated, and conse- 
quently the Roman Catholic clergy have discountenanced them. 
From Gougane Barra the tourist may proceed either to Bantry 
or GlengarifT by the 

Pass of Kamaneigli, a rugged ravine, through which rushes 
a mountain torrent. 

Elevation above the Sea of the Principal Mountains in 
the County Kerry. 

Feet. 

Tomies 2413 

Stoompa 2281 

Tore , 1764 



Feet. 

Carrantuohill 3414 

Macgillicuddy's Eeeks 3141 

Mangerton 2756 

Purple Mountain 2739 

Sheehey Mountain 2413 



Eagle's Nest 1103 



Elevation above the Sea of the Principal Lakes in 
the County Kerry. 

Feet. 
Auger Lough (Gap of Dunloe).. 397 

Cushvally (Do.) 337 

Black Lake (Do.) 334 

Guitane 256 



Feet. 

Devil's Punch Bowl(Mangerton) 2206 
Cummeennacopasta (Keeks) ... 2156 

Erhagh 1408 

Gouragh (Reeks) 1126 

Callee (Do.) 1096 

Managh 1074 

Caragairy 871 

Black Lough (Gap of Dunloe) ... 587 



Coom-a-dhuv Lough 197 

Upper Lake 70 

Lower Lake 66 



INDEX. 



Aghaboe House and Abbey, 6. 
Aghadoe Ruins, 5S. 

House, 59. 
Allen, Hill of, 4, 25. 
Arbunis Island, 64. 
Bagnalstown, 18. 
Bandon. 77- 

Hotel. 77 
Bantrr. 77- 

Hotel, 77- 
Bennet's Bridge. 19. 
Black Rock. 48. 
Black Vallev, 61. 
Blarney, 16* 53. 

Excursion to, 52. 

Stone, 53. 

Lake, 54, 
Brisbane Castle, 23. 
Buttevant. 14. 
Cakir, 21, 33. 
Cahirdearg. 32. 
Canice. St, Cathedral 36. 
Carlow. 16, 34. 

County, 34. 
Carrick-on-Suir. 22, 34. 
CasheL 11. 29. 

Rock of, 30. 
Castletownroeke. 15. 
Celbridse, 3. 
Clondaliin. 2. 24. 
Clonmel, 21, 33. 
Cloyne, 50. 
Cooni-a-Dhuv, 61. 
Cork, 40. 

Hotels, Cars, and Packets, 40. 

Principal sights, 41. 

Harbour. 50. 

To Killarnev. 76. 
Cove, 48. 

Curragh of Kildare, 5, 25. 
Derrycimihy Waterfall. 64. 
Devil's Bit Mountain, 28 



Doneraile, 14. 
1 Dromore, 23. 
I Dunkitt, 22. 
Dunloe Gap, 60. 

Cave, 59. 
Eagle's Nest, 66. 
Elevation of Mountains. 60. 

Lakes, 80. 
Emly, 12/ 

Eares from Dublin to Killarney. 1. 
Eermov. 55. 
Eethard, 21, 32. 
Eindown, 22. 
Galbally, 12. 
Galtee Mountains, 11. 
Glena Bay, 70. 
Glengariff, 78. 

Hotels. 78. 
Gougane Barra, 80. 
Guir' Lough, 12. 
Hawlboline,' 49. 
HoreAbbev. 31. 
Holy Cross' Abbey, 10, 38. 
Innlsf alien Island. 71. 
Jerpoint, 19, 38. 
John's. St.. Kilkenny. 37. 
Kanturk, 23. 35. 
Kells, 19, 38. 
Kenmare, 79. 

Hotels, 79. 
Kilcolnian. 14. 
Kilcullen, 17. 
Kildare. 5, 25. 

County, 24. 

To Thomastown, 17. 
Kilfinane, 13. 
Kilkennv. 19, 35. 

County, 35. 
Killarney Tillage, 57- 

Hotels, Cars, Boats, and Guile; 
56. 

Excursions from, 57, 73. 



82 



Killaraey, Lakes of, 62. 
KillmaUock, 13. 
Knocklong Hill, 12. 
Leighlin, 18. 
Loinbardstown, 23. 
Lough Leane, 68. 
Louglimore Castle, 9. 
Lucan, 2. 
Macroom, 80. 
Mallow. 15. 

To Killarney, 23. 
Mangerton, 75. 
Maryborough, 7, 26. 
McCarthy's Island, 64 
Mitchelstown, 13. 

Caves, 32. 
Monasteraven, 6. 
Monkstown, 49. 
Mountrath, 8. 
Muckross, 57. 

Abbey, 73. 

Demesne, 74 

Hotels, 57. 

Lake, 68. 
Naas, 4, 25. 
Newbridge, 5. 
O'Donahue's Horse, 69. 
Old Weir Bridge, 67. 
O'SuUivan's Cascade, 70. 
Paps, 23. 



Passage, 48. 
Portarlington. 7. 
Portlaw, 22. 
Queen's County, 26. 
Queenstown from Cork, 48-50. 
Railway Chart, Dublin to Cork, 1-17. 

Kildare to Thomastown, 17-20. 

Limerick Junction to Waterford, 
20-21. 

Mallow to Killarnev, 23. 
Rathcogan, 14. 
Reeks, 76. 
Rock of Cashel, 30. 
Rockv Island, 49. 
Roscrea, 8, 27. 
Ross Castle, 72. 

Island, 72. 
Spike Island. 49. 
Templemore, 9, 27- 
Thomastown. 19. 
Thurles, 10, 28. 
Tipperarv, 20. 

County, 27. 
Tore Mountain, 75. 

Waterfall, 74. 
Waterford, 22, 39. 

Countv, 39. 

Hotels, 39. 
Youshal, 55. 



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BLACK S GUIDE BOOK ADVERTISER. 

ftHSSfi^B. A flitter** 







17 WATERLOO PLACE, 

(nearly opposite the post-office), 

EDINBURGH. 



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COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN, FAMILIES, TOURISTS, and the PUBLIC, will find 
v this large and commodious Hotel elegantly Furnished, centrically situated, 

and conducted in a style securing comfort, convenience, and economy. 

THE COMMERCIAL ROOM is a large handsomely-finished apartment, reserved for Com- 
mercial Gentlemen. 

THE SHOW ROOM is fitted up expressly to suit gentlemen carrying Stock, and is parti- 
cularly deserving of notice hy those requiring good light, large space, and 
easy access. There are smaller apartments for those not requiring the 
large room. 

THE BED-ROOMS are numerous, lofty, and commodious. 

THE PARLOURS are admirably adapted for Families, or those requiring private apartments, 

THE COFFEE-ROOM is a beautiful large room where Refreshments are served at any hour 
of the day, and is very suitable for those who do not require private parlours. 

NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, and a SELECT LIBRARY OF BOOKS, are provided in 
the Commercial Room and Coffee-Room. 

THE COOKING DEPARTMENT is particularly attended to. 

The CHARGES are upon the most moderate scale, and include attendance. 

The Proprietor continues the Commercial Temperance Hotel, at No. 12 SOUTH ST. 
DAVID STREET, and returns his grateful acknowledgments to the Public for the liberal 
patronage accorded him there, and at the New Hotel at 

17 WATSELOO PLACE, EDINBURGH, 



black's guide book advertiser. 25 

THE ROYAL HOTEL, 

{Opposite the Scott Monument) 

53 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH. 



HENRY M. GIBB begs to intimate to the Nobility, Gentry, 
and Strangers visiting Edinburgh and its vicinity, that he still 
continues to devote his attention to the conducting of this Esta- 
blishment, with the same regard to Style and Comfort which 
have gained him, during the last Twenty Years, so much favour, 
notice, and patronage. ^ 

As H. M. Gibb imports his own Wines, this department, as 
well as every other in connection with the Table, may be de- 
pended upon by those who honour him by occupying apartments 
in his Hotel. 

A Rival Establishment in Princes Street has recently 
assumed the title of the New Royal Hotel, which has led to 
mistakes, and occasioned annoyance and disappointment to 
strangers, who, though desirous of residing in the " Royal 
Hotel," have been, by different Cabmen, wilfully taken to Tait's 
1" New Royal Hotel." H. M. Gibb, therefore, takes this oppor- 
tunity respectfully to solicit particular attention to the name 
and address of 

THE ROYAL HOTEL, 

GIBB'S, 

53 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH. 



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BLACK S GUIDE BOOK ADVERTISER. 




RAMPLING'S WATERLOO HOTEL, 

{Opposite the General Post Office), 
WATERLOO PLACE, EDINBURGH. 

QTRANGERS and others VISITING EDINBURGH will find that for SITUATION, COM 
ft FORT, and ACCOMMODATION, combined with MODERATE CHARGES, this elegant 
and Extensive Establishment (which was built expressly for an Hotel, at an expense of 
upwards of £30,000), is unequalled in the city. 

The "Wines and Cuisine are of the First Quality. 

COMMODIOUS AND ELEGANT COFFEE-ROOM. 

Large and Well- Ventilated SmoMng-Room. Suite of Apartments, &c. 

A Moderate fixed Charge for Attendance. 



PHILP'S, 

ST. JAMES' SQUAEE, EDINBUEGH. 

An elegantly Furnished Large First-Class Family and Commercial Hotel, 
immediately behind the Eegister Office. — Quiet and Airy. 

The House, from its situation, adjoining the most important thoroughfares 
in the City, and nearness to the Railway Termini, will be found most con- 
venient for Travellers. 

TAEIFF OF CHARGES. 
Bed .... Is. 6d. 

Breakfast . . . Is. 6d. 

Dinner .... 2s. Od. 

Tea ... Is. 3d. 

Servants, Is. per day. 



"PATRONIZED BY THE ROTHSCHILD'S." 



BOWNESS, WINDERMERE. 

200 yards from the Lake — A Lake View — Ninety Beds- 
prosperous as ever — Terms as moderate. 



-Business as 



black's guide book advertiser. 27 

liFOBTAiT TO TOURISTS, 

FAMILIES, AND GENTLEMEN VISITING 
EDINBURGH, 



IN order to secure the perfect comfort and convenience ot 
Parties residing in this Hotel, the proprietor has lately fitted 
up a large and most commodious Family Room, in the best 
style, and superior to any apartment of the same kind in the city. 
In addition to which, a large and elegant Room adjoining has 
been set apart as a Withdrawing Room for Ladies, with the use 
of Pianoforte, Music, Periodicals, &c. &c. 

Table d'Hote at 5 o'clock. 

During last season a Table d'Hote was partially established, 
and having succeeded beyond expectation, the proprietor 
has made arrangements for carrying it out upon a more ex- 
tensive scale, where Tourists, although not residing in the Hotel, 
may join their friends at the usual charges, by leaving their 
names at the office of the Hotel by four o'clock. Separate Tables 
always ready. 

Also, Private Rooms for parties who wish to be more 
retired. 

A first-class Cook always engaged. A Porter in atten- 
dance during the night. 

Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths, on the shortest notice. 
One kept exclusively for Ladies. 

The "mistakes" and "disappointments" alluded to by 
another party are wholly groundless. 

At this Establishment all attendance charged in the bill. 



18 & 19 PRINCES STEEET, 
EDINBURGH, 

(opposite the general railway termini), 
J. TAIT, Proprietor. 



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CARRICK'S, 

No. 66 GEORGE SQUARE, GLASGOW. 

TUTR. JAMES CARRICK (late of the Clydesdale, Lanark) begs most respect- 
fully to intimate to the Nobility, Gentry, and Commercial Gentlemen 
visiting Glasgow, that he has succeeded to the Business of the above well-known 
Hotel, so long conducted by his late father. 

The arrangements of this Establishment are such as to insure "Visitors every 
comfort and privacy, combined with a moderate scale of Charges. 

Suites of private apartments for Families, and a spacious Coffee- Room re- 
served for Gentlemen. 

A fixed Charge for Attendance. 

Glasgoiv, 1st April 1854. 




REGENT HOTEL, 

NO. 2 OSWALD STREET, GLASGOW HARBOUR, GLASGOW. 

T\ONALD MACDONALD begs respectfully to intimate to his Friends and the Public, that 
U the above Hotel is replete with every comfort and convenience, is admirably suitable lor 
Tourists departing or arriving by the different Steamers on the Clyde, being close to the 
Glasgow Bridge Steam-Boat Wharf, South- Western, Ayr, and Greenock Railways, and within 
a few minutes' walk of the Edinburgh and Glasgow and Caledonian Railways. 

This Hotel is in one of the most airy and cheerful situations in Glasgow, commanding a 
most magnificent view of the Clyde, &c. 

Suites of Apartments for families, and. a Public room for Single Gentlemen. 

Dining and Refreshment Rooms are fitted up on the ground floor for the convenience 
of casual Visitors. 

t3> The Steamers to the Highlands, Loch Lomond, Rothesay, &c, sail from the Wharf 
immediately in front of this Hotel. 



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GOLDEN LION HOTEL, 

{Campbell's, late Gibb's) 
KING STREET, STIRLING. 



DUNCAN CAMPBELL, 

WHILE expressing his thanks for the liberal support he has 
' ' received during the Four Years he has been Proprietor ot 
this Hotel, respectfully intimates that many improvements have 
recently been effected in the interior arrangement and manage- 
ment of the House, rendering it complete in every department 
as a temporary Residence for Families, Parties, Tourists, and 
the Public generally. 

D. C. flatters himself that those patronising his Establish- 
ment will find it everything they could wish in point of ac- 
commodation, moderation In charges, and facility in obtaining 
necessary refreshments. 

Everything which experience could suggest has been done 
to provide for Commercial Gentlemen, who will find it to their 
advantage to put up at the Golden Lion. 

COACHING DEPARTMENT. 

Coaches to Callander, Loch Katrine, the TROSACHs y 
Lochearnhead, Killin, Kenmore, Aberfeldy, and Dun- 
keld, twice a day during the season. 

Carriages, Broughams, Droskies, Gigs, and Post- 
Horses, on the shortest notice. 



The Inn is in the immediate vicinity of the Post-Office, 
Stamp-Office, the Banks, and the Stirling Station of the Scottish 
Central Railway ; — an Omnibus runs to and from the latter on 
the arrival and departure of all the Trains. Passengers and 
Luggage — Free. 

HOT, COLD, AND SHOWER BATHS. 

Golden Lion Hotel, King Street, Stirling, 
May 1854. 



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THOMAS PEARSON, 

OF THE 

RESPECTFULLY tenders his warmest thanks to his various friends 
and supporters for the very liberal patronage he has received 
since he entered the above Hotel, and begs to assure all who may 
continue to honour him with their support, that it will be his constant 
study to provide, as far as possible, everything conducive to their 
comfort and convenience. 

To Families and Tourists this Hotel will be found most peculiarly 
well adapted, having several private apartments suitable for their 
accommodation. It also commands the most central position, and 
affords the most easy and ready access to Abbotsford, the Abbeys of 
Melrose. Dryburgh, Kelso, and Jedburgh, also Bowhill (the seat of the 
Duke of Buccleuch), St. Mary's Loch, and a great many other places 
of beauty and interest in and around the locality. Excellent post- 
horses, and carriages of every description, to be had on the shortest 
notice. 

An omnibus attends the arrival and departure of the trains, taking 
passengers to and from gratis. 

N.B. — A moderate fixed charged for attendance. 

Melrose, May 1854. 

ABERFOYLE INN. 

ROBERT BREWSTER, 

From Philp^s Royal Hotel, Bridge of Allan, 

RESPECTFULLY intimates that he has entered into the above old-established 
House, -which is now greatly enlarged, affording elegant accommodation for 
Tourists and Families. 

Parties visiting the Lake District and the celebrated Fishing Grounds of 
Loch Ard, will rind every attention and comfort, as nothing will be wanting on 
his part to make it all that can be desired. — 12 Miles from Callander and 5 Miles 
from the Trosachs. 

Posting and Hiring in all its Departments. 

Aberjbyle, May 1854. 



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BRIDGE OF ALLAN. 



The beautiful and highly picturesque village of Bridge of 
Allan, annually visited by many thousand persons from every 
part of the United Kingdom, on account of its celebrated 

MINERAL SPRINGS, 

and the salubrity of the climate, is situated in the central 
district of Scotland, within three miles of the ancient town of 
Stirling, and being a station of the Scottish Central Railway, 
may be reached from Edinburgh and Glasgow within two 
hours, and in fourteen hours from London. The surrounding 
district is the most interesting and romantic in North Britain ; 
and within easy drives are the Field of Bannockburn, the 
Trosachs, Loch Katrine, Loch Ard, Drummond Castle, and the 
Rumbling Bridge. The temperature of the locality is extremely 
mild, the climate being pronounced equal to that of several of 
the southern Spas of England. The lodging accommodation is 
ample and elegant ; and the Hotels, of which 

PHILP'8 ROYAL HOTEL, 

and 

ANDERSON'S QUEEN'S HOTEL, 

are among the most spacious in Scotland, will be found, with 
moderation of charges, to unite the highest class accommodation 
and conveniences. Large families may be accommodated in 



32 BLACK S GUIDE BOOK ADVERTISER. 

furnished villas. And in a magnificent Reading-Hall, a Library 
a Gallery of Paintings and Casts, a Billiard-Room, a Bowling 
green, Cricket-ground, and the numerous promenades on th< 
lawn of Westerton, and by the romantic banks of the Allai I 
River, ample means are provided for recreation and amusement 
For winter residents and visitors, a Curling-pond has been con- . 
structed. 



Just Published. Price Five Shillings, Ylmo, cloth, gilt lettered, ana 
Illustrated with 30 First-class Illustrations on Steel, 

A WEEK AT BRIDGE OF ALLAN, 

Comprising an account of the Spa, and a series of Six 
Excursions to the interesting Scenery of central Scotland. 

By the Rev. CHARLES ROGER, ELD., F.S.A. Scot. 

M No person should visit Scotland without this volume." — Critic. 
" This work deserves to occupy the highest place among books of its kind."— 
Church of Scotland Review. 

* This work will repay its cost over and over." — Tait's Magazine. 



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Edinburgh : Adam & Charles Black. 



Just Published, Price Two Shillings and Sixpence, 

THE BEAUTIES OF UPPER STRATHEARN, 

Br CHARLES ROGER LL.D.. F.S.A. Scot. 



Edinburgh : Adah & Charles Black. 



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, ALEXANDER MCGREGOR respectfully informs 
Strangers and Tourists in Scotland, that, in addition to 
his Hotel at Callander, he is Proprietor of the Magnificent 
New Hotel at the Trosachs, built by Lord Willoughby 
D'Eresby in 1849. The building is a splendid piece of 
architecture, and occupies a delightful and commanding 
position, from which can be enjoyed a view of the far 
famed scenery of the Trosachs, immortalized by Sir Walter 
Scott in his Lady of the Lake. The accommodation con- 
sists of ten private Parlours, a handsome and commodious 
Public Room, and about seventy Beds. 

Carriages and Post-Horses on the shortest notice. 
Coaches to and from Stirling, daily during the Tourist 
Season. » . 

Parties of Pleasure who intend visiting Ellen's Isle are 
respectfully informed that Boats are to be had on the 
shortest notice, and that only by applying at the Trosachs 
Hotel. 

ggT Let Tourists and Parties visiting the Trosachs and 
Loch Katrine distinctly understand, that there is no such 
place as a " New Trosachs/' and the place now called by 
:hat name is Duncraggan, and fully three miles from Loch 
Katrine. 



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TARBET mm, 

ARROCHAR, LOCH-LOMOND. 



ALEXANDER MTHERSON (late of the Atholl Arms Hotel 
Blair- Atholl) having entered on a lease of the above cele 
brated Establishment, begs respectfully to assure those honouring, 
him with their patronage that everything in his power will be don* 
to secure for them all the comforts of a first-class Hotel. Th- . 
spacious character of the Apartments of this much frequented Hotel 
together with its quiet yet central position, has gained to it ai 
acknowledged pre-eminence. 

r 
Tarbet is beautifully situated on the banks of Loch Lomond 

commanding an extensive view of the Lake, and likewise Benlomond 
which is immediately opposite. The Grounds in front of the Hous- 
are being tastefully laid out in Terraces, together with a Bowling 
Green. 

The Steamers plying upon the Lake call for and with passenger 
from six to eight times a-day ; for whose further convenience ther A 
is now in course of erection a New Quay, to which there is immediat 
access from the pleasure grounds. During the season, Coaches star 
daily for Inverary, Oban, &c, leaving in the morning and returning 
at night. Coaches in connection with the Loch Lomond Steamer 
also run from the head of the Lake to Kenmore by Killin. and t> 
Inverness by Fort-William. Seats for these places by the abov- 
Coaches can be secured at the Hotel on previous notice being given. 

The Posting Establishment is provided with new Vehicles, am 
experienced and steady Postilions. 

Boats and Boatmen are kept exclusively for parties living at th 
Hotel taking Aquatic Excursions upon the Lake, and for Salmon am 
Trout-Fishing, which, being preserved, is excellent. 

The Culinary and Wine and Spirit Departments will be conducts 
with that experience and selection which he trusts will meet wit! 
entire approbation. 

Servants' attendance will be charged in the BilL 



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PORTEEE INN, HOTEL, AND .POSTING-HOUSE, 
SKYE. 

FOHN* ROSS, in returning thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, and Tourists, for 
the very liberal support he has received for several years, respectfully so- 
cks a continuance of their favour, and intimates that no exertion on his part 
vill be wanting to promote the comfort of those who may honour him with their 

Patronage. 

In the immediate vicinity are the far-famed Prince Charles' Cave, the 
■Jtor Pillar, and Waterfall, so much of late years subjects of admiration 

^o travellers ' and scientific persons; the Sitting-place of Fingal, and the lofty 

■»eaks of Cuillin, v which are visible in almost every part of the Island. Quiraing, 
bout twenty miles north of Portree, must be particularly noticed. The hill in 
vhich it is situated is about 1000 feet in height. This interesting spot consists 

: f a green plot of ground, formed into an oblong platform of sufficient extent to 

f ontain six or seven regiments of soldiers, &c. 

Steam communication to and from Glasgow three times a-week. 

TO TOURISTS AND THE PUBLIC. 

3LI6ACHAN INN AND HOTEL, ISLE OF SKYE, 

A. S. MACLE5JNAN (Late of Gairloch), 

iDESPECTFULLY returns thanks for the liberal support he has hitherto re- 
tf^> ceived, and begs to assure Tourists and Visitors in general, that it shall 
Ulways be his study to merit a continuance of their support, by bestowing every 
Attention to their convenience and comfort. 

W Situated at the bottom of the magnificent Cuchullin Hills, Sligachan is known 

JTo Tourists as the most beautiful spot in the West Highlands ; and, from ar- 

angements which A. S. M'L. has made, as to Ponies and Boats, parties may now 

isit, in one day and return, the great natural attractions of Skye, the gloomy 

;randeur of Coruisk, and the far-famed Spar Cave of Strathaird. 

Die Lake and Paver Fishings in the vicinity are unrivalled in the Highlands. 

Sligachan is within £sine Miles of Portree, to which there is an excellent 

..load. Steamers ply twice a-week between Glasgow and Portree. The Mail- 

[feoaeh from Dunvegan to Dingwall passes the House three times a-week — 

\londay, Wednesday, and Friday. 

A. S. M'L. will make it his study, by a careful personal superintendence over 

veiy part of the Establishment, and by keeping his stock of Wines, Spirits, &c. 
i :c. of the best description, to secure the comfort of those honouring his House 

Js^ith a visit. — Ample Accommodation and every attention to the convenience of 
' trovers and others frequenting the Skyp Markets. 

PHAETON, GIGS, AND SADDLE HORSES TO BE HAD. 

Sligachan, Skye, May 1854. 



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MOFFAT SPAS. 

CBANSTOUN'S 



PRIVATE HOTEL, MOFFAT. 

MRS. CEANSTOUN, in returning thanks for past favours 
E ™- begs to inform Tourists, and Visitors to the celebratec 
Spas of Moffat, that the above Hotels will continue to b< 
conducted in the Best Style, on Moderate Terms; and ever] 
attention will be paid to the comfort of those honouring he 
with their patronage. 

POST-HORSES, OPEN AND CLOSE CARRIAGES, OF THE 
BEST DESCRIPTION. 

An Omnibus to and from Beatock Station in connection wit] 
most of the Trains. 



DUNOON— ARGTLESHIEE. 

VICTORIA HOTEL. 

FRANCIS HENRICK 

BEGS to return his grateful thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, and Tourists wh 
have hitherto patronised the above Hotel, and begs to assure those partie I 
visiting this celebrated Watering-place, that they will find this Hotel as accom . 
modating and comfortable as any in Dunoon. It is within two minutes' walk o 
the Dunoon Quay, where numerous Steamers call daily, affording to stranger 
the opportunity of visiting some of the most beautiful scenery in the west o 
Scotland. Owing to the quietness of the situation, this Hotel is admirabl; 
adapted for Private Families and Invalids, who may depend upon the greater 
attentions. The view from this Hotel, both up and down the Firth of Clyde t. 
is most extensive and beautiful, where steamers may be seen up and dowi 
twenty minutes before the arrival at the pier. 

AftftYIJg is¥ii~ IIISSIU 

HECTOR M'PHERSON. 

The Hotel is within One Minute's walk of the Quay, where Steamboats toucl 
frequently every lawful day. 

Bedrooms will be found very comfortable and airy. The Hotel commands ai 
extensive view of the Clyde. 

Carriages Let on Hire. 



BLACK'S GUIDE BOOK ADVERTISER. 37 

BOWNESS.— LAKE WINDERMERE. 



ULLOCK'S ROYAL HOTEL. 

(LATE WHITE LION), 

The Oldest Established Hotel in the District. 

SIT BOWNASS, Proprietor of the above Hotel, in returning his warmest 
'V t thanks to the Royal Families, Nobility, Gentry, and the Public for the 
iberal support he has hitherto received, begs to assure his patrons that it shall 
>e his continued study to merit a continuance of their support, by paying every 
.ttention to their comfort, combined with a strict view to economy and conve- 
nience of those who may favour him with their patronage. 

Within a few years this hotel has had the honour of receiving the patronage 
v£ the late Queen Dowager, the King of Saxony, the Prince of Prussia, the 
>rand Duke Constantine of Russia, and most of the principal English and 
foreign Families of distinction visiting this romantic and interesting district ; 
♦eing situated close upon the Lake, of which it commands extensive views, and 
vithin an easy day's excursion of all the principal lakes and mountains of the 
istrict. 

Conveyances of every description kept. House and Estate Agent. 

An Omnibus meets every Train at Birthwaite, the terminus of the Kendal 
nd Windermere Railway, 1J miles from Bowness, and Private Carriages if 
equired. Bowness is within 10J hours of London, 4J of Manchester and Liverpool. 

BIGG'S WINDERMERE HOTEL. 



IT this Establishment, Families and others visiting the Lake District will 
meet with every accommodation and attention, combined with moderate 
barges. The Hotel is situated on an eminence immediately above the ter- 
u linus of the Kendal and Windermere Railway, and is so situated as to prevent 
he least inconvenience or annoyance from the traffic. 

The views of mountain and lake scenery commanded from the windows of 
he Hotel are unsurpassed by any in the district — the Lake Windermere, with 
;s numerous islands, being seen nearly to its utmost extent. 

Open and Close Carriages,*Cars, and Post-Horses always in readiness. 



KING'S illS HOTEL, 

COMMERCIAL INN, AND POSTING HOUSE, KESWICK. 

BOWES, Proprietor of the above Hotel, begs to inform 

* • Families and Tourists visiting the Lake District, that it shall always be 
| lis study to give every satisfaction to those -who may favour him with their 
patronage, without regard to trouble or expense, combined with comfort and 
| moderate charges. Conveyances of every description. Post Horses and Moun- 
tain Ponies alwavs in readiness. 



38 black's guide book advertiser. 

POUTINSCALE, KESWICK. 



MBS, AXX DIXON 

BEGS respectfully to inform Tourists and others visiting 
the Lake District, that she has greatly enlarged the above 
Hotel, and fitted it up on the most modern principle, where 
every attention will be paid to Parties who may favour her 
with their patronage. The Hotel stands on the margin of the 
Lake, and commands Extensive Views of the Lake and Moun- 
tain Scenery, and is centrally sitaated for Excursions. It is 
one mile distant from the town of Keswick, and a quarter of 
a mile from Crosthwaite Church. 

An Angling Association having been formed in Keswick, 
the lakes and rivers are now protected, and abound with fish. 
The principal river passes a little below the Hotel, which 
parties fond of the recreation will find very convenient. 

THE WINE& &c. AEE OF THE EIEST QUALITY. 

Carriages, Conveyances, and Hack Horses are let out 
for hire on reasonable Terms. 

PLEASURE AND FISHING BOATS TO BE HAD AT THE HOTEL. 



THE MAILS PASS AND REPASS DAILY. 

SDBD §1!4®Hko 

BROWNS, HOWS, AND LOWTKER HOTEL, GRASMERE, 

STANDS above the Turnpike Road, commanding views of the 
Lake, Tillage, and the surrounding mountain scenery, and cannot be equalled 
for beauty in the whole of the Lake District. Coaches and Omnibuses daily to 
and from' the Hotel. Open and Close Carriages, Cars. Phaetons. Ponies. Boats. &a 
Parties will find this the easiest place to ascend Helvellyn and Fairfield from, 
Ponies going to the summit of both. 



black's guide book advertiser. 39 

D. MACPHERSON, 

(LATE WALKER'S), 

ARGYLE ARMS HOTEL, 
INVGRARY. 

THE TAEBET AND OBAN COACHES 

LEAVE THE HOUSE DAILY DURING THE SEASON. 



LONDON'S HOTEL, 

ARDRISHAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. 

THE above Hotel is beautifully situated on Lochfine, and possesses every ac- 
commodation for Families and Tourists. The scenery in the neighbourhood 
s most enchanting, and within easy drives of the Hotel. 
There is fine Loch and River Fishing. 
Superior Horses and Carriages, with careful drivers. 

An Omnibus attends the arrival of the Steamers to convey Passengers to the 
Hotel gratis. 

Attendance charged in the Bill. 

FISHING TACICie iAKEiS, 

By Special Appointment to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, 

34 PRINCES STKEET, EDINBURGH. 

A AND G-. W. respectfully call the attention of noblemen 
[Li and gentlemen to their present extensive Stock, which 
vill be found replete with every Article in the Line. 

Flies Dressed to order. Bait of all descriptions. 

Cases fitted up on a few hours' notice with everything re- 
quisite for the various localities to which gentlemen may be 
)roceeding ; their long experience enables them to give every 
nformation. An early call requested. 

Observe the Address. 

ANGLERS' RESORT, No. 34 PRINCES STREET. 
DEALERS IN LIVE BIRDS, FOREIGN AND BRITISH. 



40 



BLACK S GUIDE BOOK ADVERTISER. 




STEAM CONVEYANCE 




PRINCE OF WALES AND ALBERT STEAMERS. 



Landing and Embarking Passengers (casualties excepted) at North 

QlJEENSFERRY, Bo'NESS, CHARLESTON, CrOMBIEPOINT, KINCARDINE, and 
DuNMORE. 

Fares. 

From Granton Pier to Stirling. Cabin 2s. Steerage Is. 4d. 

„ „ to Alloa. „ Is. 6d. „ Is. 

Day Tickets issued for going and returning same day, 

From Granton Pier to Stirling. Cabin 3s. Steerage 2s. 

to Alloa. „ 2s. 6d. „ Is. 6d. 

Intermediate Ports in Proportion. 

A PLEASURE TRIP ONCE A-WEEK 

From Stirling- to Granton, and Granton to Stirling, calling at 
Intermediate Ports. 
Cabin Is. I Steerage . . 6d. 

Same Fare charged in returning. 
Tourists desirous of enjoying a treat, are respectively recommended to 
go by the above steamers, and view the beautiful scenery on the Banks of - 
the Forth. It is one of the finest sails in Scotland. Many parties avail 
themselves of this interesting and cheap route in travelling between Edin- 
burgh and Glasgow, by Steamers from Granton Pier to Stirling, thence per i 
Scottish Central Railway to Glasgow, and vice versa. 

Information as to hours of sailing, &c, to be had — in Edinburgh, at the 
Box (late Duty-House), North Bridge, Croall's Coach Office, No. 10 Princes 
Street, and at the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway Station, North 
Bridge Street (whence Passengers are conveyed to Granton Pier for the 
Steamers) — in Glasgow, at the Star Hotel, and at Wordie and M' Arthur's, 
120 Brunswick Street, and Madeira Court, 251 Argyle Street. 
N.B.— The Daily Sailings of these Steamers are advertised regularly in the 
Company's Bills, which are printed every fortnight, 

Stirling, 1854. AND*. DRUMMOND. 



black's guide book advertiser. 41 



DAILY SAILINGS 

TO 

BELFAST, LONDONDERRY, AND THE NORTH OF IRELAND; 

ALSO TO 

PIEL PIER for FURNESS ABBEY, ULYERSTON, WHITEHAYEN, 
AND THE LAKES DISTRICT. 

The Royal Mail Steamers " PRINCE OF WALES," " ROYAL CONSORT," and 
" PRINCESS ALICE," 

I leave Fleetwood for Belfast every evening (Sundays excepted) at or after 7.35 p.m., always 
I awaiting the arrival of the last trains at Fleetwood; 

AND RETURN 

from Belfast to Fleetwood every evening (Sundays excepted) at 7.15 p.m., arriving at Fleet- 
wood in time for the first trains to Preston, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leaming- 
ton, Cheltenham, London, Leeds, York, Hull, &c. 

Passengers are hooked through between the principal English railway stations and Bel- 
fast, and return tickets at one fare and a half, available for fourteen days, are also issued. 



FOR FURNESS ABBEY, ULYERSTON, WHITEHAYEN, AND THE 
LAKES DISTRICT. 

The fine Steamer "HELVELLYN" leaves Fleetwood for Piel Pier every morning (Sun- 
days excepted), after the arrival of the first train from Preston, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. ; 
and returns from Piel Pier to Fleetwood every afternoon (Sundays exceptedX arriving at 
Fleetwood in time for the train to Preston, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, 
&c. &c. 

Tourists will find this the most agreeable route for going to, or returning from the 

English Lakes, as they are enabled to visit the famed and romantic ruins of Furness 

Abbey, Coniston Lake, Wast Water, the Vade of the Duddon, &c. And for parties between 

the North of Ireland and the English Lakes, this is the only direct route, and the communis 

l cation being daily, there is no delay. 

At the Furness Abbey Station there is an excellent Hotel and Refreshment Room, 
' contiguous to the magnificent ruins of Furness Abbey. The grounds about the Hotel 
have been laid out as a garden for the recreation of visitors, and the situation is delight- 
I fully salubrious and secluded. The Hotel affords to Visitors and Tourists of all classes 
superior and comfortable accommodation at moderate charges. — Post-Horses, Carriages, 
Guides, &c. 

At Fleetwood the railway carriages go alongside the Steamers, and Passengers' luggage 
is taken on board and brought ashore free of charge. 

For full information, apply to Robert Hendekson, Belfast ; at 55 Aldermanbury, Lon- 
don; to Henry Nock, Dale End, Birmingham; and at all London and North- Western, 
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Furness Railway Stations ; or to 



KEMP & Co., 

FLEETWOOD. 



42 black's guide book advertiser. 

LONDON & SOUTH-WESTERN 
RAILWAY. 

PARIS, HAT RE, ASH THE CONTINENT. 

Via Southampton and Ha,vre. 

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. 

1st Class 2d Glass 

throughout, throughout, 

London to Paris (or vice versa) 28s. Od. 20s. 

do. to Havre . . . 22s. 6d. 16s. 

Through Tickets are issued at 53 King William Street, City, and 
Waterloo Station, London. 



GUERNSEY AND JERSEY. 

Via Southampton. 

The Eoyal Mail Steam- Ships leave South- 
ampton every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, 
and FEIDAY NIGHTS, for Guernsey 
and Jersey. 

FARES THROUGHOUT. 

1st Class. 2d Class. 
London to Guernsey or Jersey . 30s. 20s. 

A Cargo Boat Weekly to the Islands. Fares — 1st Class, 21s. ; 2d 
Class, l^s. 6d. ; 3d Class, 10s. 

Goods conveyed to Havre (thence to Paris and the Continent ge- 
nerally), Guernsey, and Jersey, at very moderate Rates. 

Every information may be had at 53 King William Street, 
City, at V/aterloo Station, London, or at the Railway Station, 
Southampton. 

By Order^ 

ARCHd. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. 
Waterloo Station, May 1854. ' 



black's guide book advertiser. 43 

THE 

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S 

Magnificent and Powerful Steam-Ships 

SAIL KEGULARLY FROM 

LONDON TO EDINBURGH, HULL, NEWCASTLE, 

YARMOUTH, RAMSGATE, AND MARGATE, 

HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, OSTEND, ANTWERP, 

BOULOGNE, CALAIS, AND HAVRE. 



Every information may be obtained on application in London at 
the Company's Offices, 71 Lombard Street, 37 Regent Circus, and 
35 Leadenball Street, also at St. Katharine's Wharf and the London 
Bridge Wharf; and from the Agents at the different Ports. 



j - ROYAL ROUTE. 

§Via Grinan and Caledonian Canals. 
THE SWIFT STEAMERS 
Mountaineer— Pioneer— Dolphin— Edinburgh Castle 

will commence to ply for the season on Monday the 22d May. 
For particulars of sailings and map of Koute, apply to the 
various Agents, or to the Proprietors, 

85 HOPE STKEET. 

I Glasgow , April 1854, 

The Steamers Chevalier, Cygnet, and Lapwing, continue to 
ply with Goods and Passengers as usual. 



44 



BLACKS GUIDE BOOK ADVERTISER. 



ROYAL 




«r 



Iw«8«fis # 1 demit, 



TARTAN MANUFACTURERS 
TO THE QUEEN AND THE ROYAL FAMILY, 

59 NORTH BRIDGE, 
EDINBURGH. 



black's guide book advertiser. 45 

DRUMMOND'S 

CELEBRATED 

SCOTCH CLAN TARTAN WAREHOUSE, 

FOOT OF KING STEEET, 
STIRLING. 

Stirling is of ancient celebrity for the Manufacture of Genuine Clan Tartans 
and is the centre of a district highly and justly distinguished for production of 
the most exquisite textures connected with the National Costume of Scotland. 
which are so universally esteemed and appreciated, on account of their comfort 
and usefulness, combined with elegance of pattern and durability. 

J. & A. Drummond have had the honour of supplying many of the most 
eminent personages in Britain, and numerous distinguished strangers from the 
Continent and America, with Tartans and Scotch Tweeds, &c, from whom they 
have received repeated orders with gratifying acknowledgments of their ap- 
proval of the goods received from this Establishment. From the well-known 
fame of the Stirling Tartans, the Proprietors of this Establishment are proud to 
say their Goods have found their way into almost every country in the civilized 
world. They are therefore enabled to offer to purchasers a selection from a Stock 
I unusually extensive, and of the most superb description, consisting of — Clan and 
Xew Fancy Saxony Wool Tartans for Ladies' Dresses. Square and Long Shawls, 
Gentlemen's Vests, Cravats, &c. &c. Spun Silk Tartans in Clans and Fancy 
Styles : — this Fabric is much approved of for Ladies' Dresses, Gentlemen's Nec- 
kerchiefs and Cravats, being elegant, durable, and cheap. 

Genuine Scotch Tweeds for Shooting Jackets, House Coats, Trousers, Tests, 
and Boys' Dresses, &c. From the softness and elasticity of this article of manu- 
facture, it is much more comfortable and durable, also very much cheaper than 
English Cloth. A variety of Grays and Blacks, suitable for Clergymen. Un- 
dressed Bannockburn Tweeds, which are at a very low price, and much in 
t':;vour for Shooting, Fishing, and Boys' Dresses, and other rough wear. 

Gentlemen's Railway Travelling Wrappers or Shepherds' Plaids. The com- 
fort derived from these travelling companions only require a trial to appreciate 
their usefulness and warmth, and insure their universal approval by all Tourists 
and Travellers. 

Scotch-made Damask Table Linens. Bed Room Sheetings and Towellings, 
highly esteemed for their texture, style, and durability. 

IN DRUMMOND'S ASRICULTURAL MUSEUM 

i are exhibited specimens of the various Textures and Patterns, which maybe 
inspected by Tourists and Strangers visiting Stirling, free of charge. 

Intending Purchasers may be supplied with Sets of patterns, priced, with a 
list of Clans, sent free to any part of the United Kingdom and Ireland, upon 
application. 

All Purchases of Three Pounds value and upwards forwarded free of carriage 
to London, Liverpool, Hull, Newcastle, Dublin, Belfast, &c. 



46 black's guide book advertiser. 

SANDERSON & SON, 

LAPIDAKIES, JEWELLERS, AND SEAL ENGEAVEE 

15 GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH, 
{Formerly 32 St. Andrew Square), 

Dealers in every variety of Scottish Gems, Pebbles, Jaspers, Pearls, &c, an* 
Manufacturers of 

SCOTTISH JEWELLERY, 

Of which they have always on hand a large and choice Assortment. 

HIGHLAND DIRKS, 

And the various Ornaments for the Highland Dress. 
SEAL E N G R A V 1 1ST G in all its Departments in the best Style. 

All interested in the Highlands and its People — all visiting its Mountains 8 
Tradition-hallowed Scenery — all who enjoy Deer-stalking, Grouse-shooti 
Salmon-fishing, Trout- trolling, and the other Sports of the North, shoi 
visit 

DONALD MAODOUOALL'S 

ROYAL CLAN TARTAN AND TWEED WAREHOUSf 
01 HMH STREET, INVERNESS. 

MANUFACTURER TO THE QUEEN AND THE ROYAL FAMLl" 

Who received a First Class Prize Medal at the Great Exhibition of '51. 

At his Establishment will be found the most unlimited 
variety of EOYAL CLAN and FANCY TAKTANS p'id 
PLAIDS and SHAWLS, FINE TWEED for Town Wei •*, 
LINSEY WOOLSEY, &c. All the necessary Clothing f o • 
Deer-stalking, Grouse-shooting, Salmon-fishing, Trout-trolling, 
Deep-sea Fishing, as well as all other descriptions of Highland- 
Manufactur^.J) 3^ g W tajf i $* 

Clothing for the Sportsman and Tourist made up at Half the London Prices. 
PLAIDS, WRAPPERS, STOCKS, BONNETS, CAPS AND KNAPSACKS, DEER-STALKMG HOODS, 
HIGHLAND CLOAKS, CAPES, AND PONCHOS. 



BLACKS GUIDE BOOK ADVERTISES, 4 4 

fELSON'S I MONUMENT 

CALTON «^fcA HILL. 




he view from the top of this Monument is considered equal to any in Europe, the 
Bay of Naples not excepted. 

Additional Attractions. — In addition to the many attractions, there has 
ely been added a magnificent Camera Obscura, very grand Solar Micros. 
>pe, with powerful Gregorian and Achromatic Telescopes, by eminent op- 
nans; also a splendid Cosmoramic and Dioramic Exhibition, t b 
moramic Views of Edinburgh and London, brilliantly illuminated by gas ; the 
iole forming a place of interest and scientific cimusement nowhere else to be 
."et with. Admission to the whole Is., top view included. 

X.B. — The Public have now the gratification of examining the Time Ball on 
{ aTop of the Monument. 

fishing tackle. 

1 EXTLEMEX visiting Edinburgh will find a complete Assortment of FISHING 
\ ^RODS, TACKLE, &c, for Angling in the Lakes and Pavers of Scotland, of 
c est description, combined with moderate charges, at PHIX'S FISHING 
f ? £LE WAREHOUSE, 80 Princes Street, First Door Up-Stairs. 

Established 1810. 

&H00TOG km PI8NHIA M SCOTLAil 

'"JJE attention of Sportsmen is respectfully drawn to the very 

superior quality of the goods manufactured and sold by J. D. Dougall, Prac- 

al G-unsmith and Fishing- Tackle Maker, 23 Gordon Street, Glasgow. As 

io old-established business is entirely devoted to the higher classes of Sporting 

iplements, its Panes, Fowling-pieces, Rods, &c, &c, equalling in quality those 

the first metropolitan Makers, and unrivalled in Scotland, strangers may have 

j ery confidence in making purchases. A very large stock is always kept. 

Established 1760. 



N". B. — Through a peculiar* style in boring, the Fowling-pieces made by J. 
D. will be found to possess extraordinary force in shooting. 



48 black's guide book advertiser. 

TO TOURISTS. 

VISITORS TO EDINBURGH have their attention 

V respectfully invited to— - 

Milne's Tourists' New "Writing Portfolios, fitted with every requisite f< 
Journal and Correspondence, and unequalled for compactness, completenes 
and convenience. Nine Patterns. Price 7s. 6d. to 42s. 

Milne's Bijou Dressing-Cases for Ladies,— no larger than Brush Cases, y< 
containing full-sized Hair Brush, Jewel Drawer, and every requisite. Corr 
plete, Russia or Morocco, 35s., 40s., and 45s. — Similar Dressing-Cases Jc 
Gentlemen, complete, 45s. and 50s. 

Milne's Miniature Dressing-Cases for Gentlemen, — can be carried in 
Dress Coat Pocket — are far handier than the old "Pouch," and they lock u 
In Russia or Morocco, complete (with best Razors), 26s. each. 

Milne's Travelling Desks, Single and Double, finished in the Newe 
Styles, unsurpassed in Quality, and moderate in Price. Every size and hi 
in stock, from 10s. 6d. to £4 : 4s. 

Milne's " Tourist's Companion," Desk and Dressing-Case combined. 

W. & J. Milne have greatly improved this elegant Travelling Companio 
The Dressing-Case is now separable at pleasure from the Desk, and it co" 
tains two large Hair Brushes and a Cloth Brush, besides extra Bottles. Pri 
complete, £6 : 6s. %* A smaller size, 10 inches long, 9 inches wide, 3 inc, 
deep, Price £4 : 4s. The Dressing-case, separate, £3. 

Milne's Wellington Despatch Box Desk, Russia or Turkey Morocco, las 
Tray, Berry's Patent Ink and Lights, Portfolio, Stationery of all kinds, C. 
lery, Silver Penholder, &c, with Bramah's Spring Lock. Price £5 : 15s. cot 
plete.— The Best Despatch Box for Professional and Military Gentlemen. 

Milne's Wellington Dressing-Case, Turkey Morocco, with largest siz 
Fittings, Bottles silver capped, Finest Cutlery, complete, £8 : 8s. The sar 
Silver fitted, richly engraved, £16 : 16s. This Dressing-case is well woi 
inspection. 

Milne's Medicine Chests in Green Russia, for India, patent stopper 
Bottles, Scales, Measure, Drawer, &c, w T ith cover. Price 58s. 6d. 

Milne's Dressing-Cases for India, Russia Leather, Bramah's Locks. 
Can neither split nor shrink with damp or heat, and resist the attacks oflnsecU 
These Dressing-Cases have met with unqualified approbation from part 
now in India, who have since sent W. & J. M. orders for friends there. 
Prices, for Gentlemen, complete, £5 : 5s. ; Silver fitted, £10 : 10s. 
„ Ladies, „ £6 : 6s. ; Silver fitted, £12 : 12s. 

Milne's Travelling Cigar Boxes. Morocco, Bramah's Locks, 30s. 

AIL THE ABOVE ARTICLES ARE OF FIRST CLASS QUALITY, AND ARE MADE AND SOLD ONLY I 

W. & J. MILNE, 
DESK AND DRESSING-CASE MAKERS AND STATIONERY 

33 HANOVER STEEET, EDINBURGH. 

A Large Stock or Elegancies eor Presents, Souvenirs, &c, consisting of 
Desks, Work-Boxes, Dressing-Cases, Jewel Cases, "My Letters" Cases, Scott Monument Tab! 
Envelope Boxes, Reticules, Pocket-Books, $~c, French Courier and Carriage Bags in great 
riety. *** Passport Cases, Morocco, 2s. 6d. each. • 

Priced Catalogues, Gratis, at 33 Hanover Street. 

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